MEMORIAL   ADDRESSES 


LIFE  AND  CHARACTER 


MONROE  L,  HAYWARD 


(!,ATK  A  SENATOR  FKOM  NEBRASKA), 


DELIVERED    IN    THE 


SENATE  AND  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES, 


FIFTY -SIXTH    CONGRESS, 
FIRST  SESSION. 


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CONTENTS. 


Page. 

Proceedings  in  the  Senate 5 

Address  of  Mr.  Thurston,  of  Nebraska 8 

Address  of  Mr.  Fairbanks,  of  Indiana 21 

Address  of  Mr.  Spooner,  of  Wisconsin 24 

Address  of  Mr.  Allen,  of  Nebraska 28 

Proceedings  in  the  House  of  Representatives 34 

Address  of  Mr.  Burkett,  of  Nebraska 38 

Address  of  Mr.  Mercer,  of  Nebraska 48 

Address  of  Mr.  Hull,  of  Iowa 58 

Address  of  Mr.  Stark,  of  Nebraska 60 

Address  of  Mr.  Sutherland,  of  Nebraska 63 

Address  of  Mr.  Neville,  of  Nebraska 66 

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DEATH  OF  MONROE  L  HAYWARD. 


PROCEEDINGS  IN  THE  SENATE. 

DECEMBER  5,  1899. 

Mr.  THURSTON.  Mr.  President,  it  becomes  my  painful 
duty  to  announce  that  the  Hon.  MONROE  L.  HAYWARD, 
Senator-elect  from  the  vState  of  Nebraska  for  the  term  com 
mencing  March  4,  1899,  departed  this  life  at  6  o'clock  and 
20  minutes  this  morning,  at  his  home  in  Nebraska  City. 
On  some  future  and  fit  occasion  it  is  my  purpose  to  present 
and  ask  consideration  by  the  Senate  of  appropriate  memo 
rial  resolutions.  At  the  present  time  I  offer  the  resolu 
tions  which  I  send  to  the  desk,  and  ask  their  immediate 
consideration. 

The  PRESIDENT  pro  tempore.  The  resolutions  offered 
by  the  Senator  from  Nebraska  will  be  read. 

The  Secretary  read  the  resolutions,  as  follows: 

Resolved,  That  the  Senate  has  heard  with  deep  regret  and  profound 
sorrow  of  the  death  of  Hon.  MOXROK  L.  HAYWARD,  lately  elected  Senator 
from  the  State  of  Nebraska. 

Resolved,  That  the  Secretary  communicate  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  to 
the  House  of  Representatives. 

Resolved,  That  as  a  further  mark  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  the  de 
ceased,  the  Senate  do  now  adjourn. 

The  PRESIDENT  pro  tempore.  The  question  is  on  agree 
ing  to  the  resolutions. 

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6  Proceedings  in  the  Senate. 

The  resolutions  were  unanimously  agreed  to;  and  (at  2 
o'clock  and  40  minutes  p.  in.)  the  Senate  adjourned  until 
to-morrow,  Wednesday,  December  6,  1899,  at  12  o'clock 
meridian. 

FEBRUARY  16. 

Mr.  THURSTON.  Mr.  President,  I  wish  to  announce  that 
at  the  close  of  morning  business  on  Friday,  the  2d  day  of 
March,  I  will  request  that  the  legislative  business  be  laid 
aside  that  Senators  may  pay  fitting  tribute  to  the  memory 
of  the  late  MONROE  L.  HAYWARD,  Senator-elect  from  the 
State  of  Nebraska.  I  have  consulted  with  some  of  the 
Senators  having  in  charge  the  paramount  business  of  the 
Senate,  and  I  think  that  that  time  is  agreeable. 

MARCH  2,    1900. 

Mr.  THURSTOX.  Mr.  President,  in  view  of  the  pressure 
of  important  public  business,  I  withdraw  the  notice  I  had 
given  for  this  day  and  give  notice  anew  that  on  Saturday, 
March  10,  as  soon  after  the  routine  morning  business  as 
may  be  convenient,  I  will  submit  resolutions  on  the  death 
of  the  late  MONROE  L.  HAYWARD,  Senator-elect  from  the 
State  of  Nebraska. 


MEMORIAL  ADDRESSES. 

MARCH  10,  1900. 

Mr.  THURSTON.  Mr.  President,  I  offer  the  resolutions 
which  I  send  to  the  desk. 

The  PRESIDING  OFFICER.  The  resolutions  presented  by 
the  Senator  from  Nebraska  will  be  read  to  the  Senate. 

The  resolutions  were  read,  as  follows: 

Resolved^  That  it  is  with  deep  regret  and  sorrow  that  the  Senate  hears 
the  announcement  of  the  death  of  Hon.  MONROK  L.  HAYWARD,  late 
Senator-elect  from  the  State  of  Nebraska. 

Resolved,  That  the  Senate  extends  to  his  family  and  to  the  people  of  the 
State  of  Nebraska  sincere  condolence  in  their  bereavement. 

Resolved,  That  as  a  mark  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  the  deceased  the 
business  of  the  Senate  be  now  suspended  to  enable  those  who  would  have 
been  his  associates  had  he  lived  to  take  his  seat  in  this  body  to  pay  fitting 
tribute  to  his  high  character  and  distinguished  worth. 

Resolved,  That  the  Secretary  transmit  to  the  family  of  the  deceased  and 
to  the  governor  of  the  State  of  Nebraska  a  copy  of  these  resolutions,  with 
the  action  of  the  Senate  thereon. 

Resolved,  That  the  Secretary  communicate  these  resolutions  to  the 
House  of  Representatives. 

Resolved,  That  as  an  additional  mark  of  respect  at  the  conclusion  of 
these  exercises  the  Senate  do  adjourn. 


Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hayward. 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.'THURSTON,  OF  NEBRASKA. 

Mr.  PRESIDENT:  MONROE  L.  HAYWARD  was  elected 
United  States  Senator  from  the  State  of  Nebraska  for  the 
full  term  of  six  years,  commencing  March  4,  1899.  It  was 
the  culmination  of  a  worthy  ambition,  the  rounding  out  of 
a  life  replete  with  achievement. 

When  the  Senate  met  on  the  first  Monday  of  December, 
1899,  Mr.  HAYWARD  was  lying  on  his  deathbed,  and  was 
never  sworn  in  as  a  Senator  of  this  body.  So  far  as  I  know, 
his  is  the  first  case  of  this  kind  in  the  history  of  the  Senate. 
For  the  first  time  the  Senate  is  asked  to  listen  to  eulogies 
upon  the  life  and  character  of  a  Senator-elect.  I  know 
there  are  no  precedents  for  the  request,  but  I  have  felt 
justified  in  making  it  in  the  case  of  a  man  who  was  in 
every  sense  of  the  word  a  Senator  of  the  United  States, 
who  was  entitled  to  a  seat  in  this  body,  whose  credentials 
had  been  received  and  accepted,  and  whose  succession  has 
been  provided  for  by  appointment  by  the  governor  of 
Nebraska,  upon  the  theory  that  a  vacancy  happened  by  his 
death. 

I  knew  Mr.  HAYWARD  long  and  well,  as  a  practicing 
attorney,  as  a  practical  business  man,  as  a  judge,  and  as  a 
political  leader.  Our  friendship  began  more  than  thirty 
years  ago  and  continued  up  to  the  time  of  his  death.  In 
every  walk  of  life  he  was  a  true  man.  Frank,  open,  con 
scientious,  and  honest  in  all  his  dealings  with  his  fellow- 


Address  of  Mr.  Thurston,  of  Nebraska.  9 

men,  he  had  and  held  the  universal  confidence  and  respect 
of  the  people  of  his  State. 

At  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  of  the  rebellion  he  volun 
teered  as  a  private  in  a  New  York  regiment.  Only  a  boy 
in  years,  he  made  for  himself  a  record  on  the  battlefields  of 
his  country  of  which  any  man  might  justly  be  proud.  He 
wore  no  epaulets  and  wielded  no  sword  of  command,  but 
he  carried  his  musket  bravely  and  gallantly,  and  his  old 
comrades  are  loud  in  their  praise  of  his  many  acts  of  valor 
and  daring  on  desperate  fields. 

The  war  over,  he  completed  his  education  as  best  he 
could,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  about  the  year  1867; 
soon  after  which  time  he  located  in  Nebraska  City,  Nebr. , 
and  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his  profession.  For  all 
that  he  accomplished  he  was  obliged  to  work.  His  is  a 
splendid  example  of  what  it  is  possible  for  a  poor  American 
boy  to  do.  As  a  youth  he  toiled  by  da}'  and  pursued  his 
studies  by  the  midnight  lamp.  His  earnest,  patient,  untir 
ing  application  to  his  studies  indicate  well  the  sturdy 
character  of  the  man;  the  indomitable  energy,  the  coura 
geous  persistence,  which  can  not  fail  of  success. 

He  was  a  brave  man  in  every  sense  of  the  word.  Brave 
in  battle,  brave  in  the  search  of  knowledge,  brave  in  the 
performance  of  his  daily  task,  brave  in  the  pursuit  of 
honorable  preferment,  brave  in  the  performance  of  all 
official  duties,  and  brave  in  the  living  of  an  earnest  Christian 
life. 

Mr.  HAYWARD  won  a  high  place  at  the  bar  of  my  State 
and  ranked  with  the  foremost  of  its  practitioners.  From 
the  first  he  established  himself  in  the  confidence  of  the 
courts,  without  which  no  lawyer  can  ever  reach  the  highest 


io         Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hayward. 

measure  of  success.  He  served  for  some  years  as  one  of 
our  district  judges  with  great  honor  and  ability,  retiring 
from  the  bench  of  his  own  choice  to  return  to  the  practice 
of  the  lawr.  He  was  a  successful  business  man,  public 
spirited,  and  just  and  generous  in  all  his  dealings  with  his 
fellow-men.  His  domestic  life  was  sweet,  simple,  and 
serene;  his  hearthstone  was  always  the  altar  of  his  sacred 
worship. 

Judge  HAYWARD  was  a  politician  in  the  highest  and  best 
sense  of  the  term.  He  was  not  an  office-seeker,  and  on 
many  occasions  refused  to  accept  political  preferment 
voluntarily  tendered  him  by  his  fellow-citizens.  He  took 
a  deep  interest  in  all  public  questions,  and  always  insisted 
on  clean  and  honest  political  methods.  Although  a  stalwart 
partisan,  he  would  not  under  any  circumstances  counte 
nance  the  political  success  of  his  party  or  its  candidates  if 
tainted  in  any  way  by  the  faintest  suspicion  of  questionable 
methods. 

In  the  campaign  of  1898  his  party  called  upon  him  by 
unanimous  voice  to  head  the  Republican  ticket  as  its  nom 
inee  for  Governor  of  the  State  of  Nebraska.  He  neither 
desired  the  nomination  nor  the  office,  but  yielded  his  own 
personal  wishes  to  the  overwhelming  popular  demand.  He 
made  a  vigorous,  honorable,  able  campaign,  and  reduced  a 
normal  fusion  majority  of  15,000  to  less  than  3,000.  His 
defeat  did  not  weaken  him,  but  greatly  strengthened  him 
in  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  his  fellow-Republicans,  and 
so  it  was  that  when  the  legislature  of  Nebraska  met  in  Jan 
uary,  1899,  with  a  Republican  majority,  he  found  himself, 
without  solicitation  on  his  part,  the  choice  of  his  party  for 
United  States  Senator.  It  too  frequently  happens  that  the 


Address  of  Mr.  Thurston,  of  Nebraska.  1 1 

choice  of  the  party  is  not  the  choice  of  the  legislature;  and 
for  a  long  time  the  Senatorial  election  was  held  in  abeyance 
by  the  entry  into  the  field  of  other  candidates  whose  few 
but  faithful  followers  continued  for  several  weeks  a  Senato 
rial  deadlock.  The  will  of  his  party,  however,  finally  pre 
vailed,  and  Mr.  HAYWARD  was  elected  Senator,  to  the  great 
satisfaction  of  the  Republicans  of  Nebraska.  The  long 
struggle  wore  upon  him  mentally  and  physically,  and  I 
have  no  doubt  had  much  to  do  in  bringing  on  the  illness  to 
which  he  finally  succumbed. 

At  the  time  of  his  election  he  was  in  the  very  prime  of 
life;  a  sturdy,  magnificent  specimen  of  manhood;  a  grand 
man,  robust  and  intellectual,  instinctively  pointed  out  in 
any  assemblage  as  a  master  and  leader  of  men.  Looking 
upon  him,  it  seemed  as  if  nature  had  intended  him  for  • 
long  life,  and  the  citizens  of  his  State  were  happy  in  the 
belief  that  they  were  to  be  represented  in  the  Senate  of 
the  United  States  for  many  years  by  one  certain  of  distinc 
tion  and  recognition  among  the  ablest  statesmanship  of  the 
laud.  How  forcibly  comes  to  us  who  saw  him  then,  wear 
ing  the  laurels  of  a  people's  offering,  the  lines  of  the  poet: 

Ah!  had  it  been  but  told  us  then  to  mark  whose  lamp  was  dim, 
From  out  yon  rank  of  fresh-lipped  men,  would  we  have  singled  him? 

His  death  came  to  the  people  of  his  State  as  a  shock;  to 
the  Republican  party  of  Nebraska  as  a  bitter  disappoint 
ment.  The  State  lost  the  services  of  a  man  of  preeminent 
ability,  certain  to  render  it  good  service  and  to  win  for  it 
recognition  and  honor.  And  in  addition  to  this,  his  party 
lost  a  seat  in  the  Senate  of  the  United  States  which  had 
only  been  won  after  a  stubborn  political  battle  that  tested 
its  energy  to  the  uttermost.  We  know  that  for  him  it  is 


12         Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hayivard. 

well,  but  for  those  who  loved  him — his  family,  his  friends, 
his  party,  and  his  State — the  loss  is  irreparable. 

In  the  contemplation  of  his  untimely  death  how  vain 
seems  human  ambition!  How  futile  the  strife  for  fame, 
the  struggle  for  place !  And  how  often  does  it  happen  that 
in  the  hour  of  triumph  the  victor  among  men  bows  to  the 
inevitable  summons  of  the  grim  messenger. 

Leaves  have  their  time  to  fall, 
And  flowers  to  wither  at  the  north  wind's  breath, 

And  stars  to  set;  but  all, 
Thou  hast  all  seasons  for  thine  own,  O  Death! 

And  yet  MONROE  L.  HAYWARU  did  not  live  in  vain. 
His  whole  life  is  a  shining  example  to  those  who  knew  him 
and  those  who  come  after  him;  and  who  does  not  believe 
that  after  a  life  so  worthily  lived,  after  a  career  so  honorably 
rounded,  he  has  but  exchanged  the  perishable  laurel  of  an 
earthly  triumph  for  the  deathless  diadem  of  an  immortal 
crown? 

Such  a  life  as  MONROE  L.  HAYWARD  lived,  such  a  death 
as  he  died,  illustrate  many  homely  lessons  worthy  of  our 
most  reverent  attention.  He  rose  from  the  humblest  walks 
of  life  to  the  eminence  of  leadership.  There  is  nothing 
impossible  to  the  American  child,  born  as  he  was  the  inher 
itor  of  American  character  and  virtue;  surrounded  as  he  was 
in  youth  by  the  purifying  influences  of  a  Christian  home; 
blessed  as  he  was  with  the  counsel  and  care  of  a  true,  good 
mother;  surrounded  as  he  was  by  the  opportunities  of 
American  life;  inspired  as  he  must  have  been  by  the  study 
and  contemplation  of  American  history.  The  doors  of 
opportunity  still  swing  open  for  the  American  youth. 
There  is  no  bar  to  the  ambition  or  success  of  the  poor 


Address  of  Mr.  TJmrston,  of  Nebraska.  13 

man's  son  in  this  land  of  equal  privileges  and  splendid 
possibilities.  On  the  broad  highway  of  American  progress 
the  barefoot  boy  outstrips  the  golden  chariot  of  ancestral 
wealth,  and  the  humblest  mother  in  this  broad  land,  as 
she  hushes  the  weak  protests  of  a  baby's  lips  upon  her 
holy  breast,  knows  that  her  boy  may  live  to  become  the 
President  of  the  Republic. 

Mr.  HAYWARD'S  life  teaches  us  the  value  of  persistent 
effort.  He  was  a  student,  earnestly,  persistently  seeking 
out  the  heart  of  things.  Nature  gave  him  a  magnificent 
body  topped  by  a  kingly  head,  but  the  intellect  of  the  mature 
man  that  won  for  him  success  and  honor  and  leadership  was 
the  product  of  years  of  persistent  effort.  The  character,  the 
integrity  that  brought  to  him  the  respect  and  confidence  of 
all  who  knew  him,  was  the  result  of  long  years  of  right 
action.  And  the  good  name,  which  is  the  richest  heritage 
of  his  descendants,  was  his,  because  day  in  and  day  out, 
through  all  the  years  of  his  life,  in  public  and  private 
affairs,  he  had  so  conducted  and  carried  himself  as  to  richly 
deserve  it. 

Mr.  HAYWARD  was  a  logician  and  an  orator,  a  trained 
intellectual  debater,  winning  men  to  his  cause  by  the  irre 
sistible  force  of  plain,  simple,  logical  presentation.  There 
was  nothing  ornate  in  his  speech.  He  never  talked  over 
the  heads  of  the  crowd,  and  in  all  his  efforts  at  the  bar  and 
in  the  forum  he  relied  upon  the  justice  of  his  case  rather 
than  upon  any  oratorical  method  of  presentation.  He  won 
men  to  him  through  the  simplicity,  directness,  and  geniality 
of  his  manner.  Men  turned  instinctively  to  him  for  leader 
ship,  knowing  that  he  would  never  abandon  a  cause  once 
espoused  or  desert  a  friend  in  any  hour  of  trial. 


14         Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hay  ward. 

He  needs  no  shaft  of  sculptured  marble,  110  words  of 
praise — his  memory  is  his  monument,  his  character  his 
epitaph. 

In  conclusion,  Mr.  President,  permit  me  to  reverently 
express  my  opinion  that  the  death  of  MONROE;  L.  HAYWARD 
was  a  serious  loss  to  this  body  and  to  the  country.  His 
sterling  integrity,  his  trained  intellect,  his  great  legal 
acquirements,  his  profound  study  of  national  affairs,  his 
deathless  patriotism,  fitted  him  above  most  men  to  grapple 
with  and  successfully  solve  the  mighty  problems  that  now 
confront  us  as  a  people.  There  is  no  dearth  of  true  states 
manship  in  the  United  States,  no  lack  of  strong,  brave  men 
to  man  the  ship  of  state;  but  the  loss  of  even  one  such  is  to 
be  deeply  regretted  and  deplored. 

For  the  dead  I  do  not  mourn.     It  is  the  loss  to  the  liviiie 

o 

that  I  regret.  He  has  passed  into  the  great  beyond.  He 
has  solved  the  problem  beyond  the  vail.  He  stands  face  to 
face  with  the  Great  Judge  of  the  Universe,  who  will  deal 
with  him  as  a  father  with  a  child;  and  he  is  at  rest. 

In  the  city  of  surcease 

There  is  only  rest  and  peace 
From  the  failings  and  the  wailings  'neath  the  sun; 

And  the  wings  of  the  swift  years 

Beat  but  lightly  o'er  the  biers 
Making  music  to  the  sleepers,  every  one. 

There  is  only  peace  and  rest, 

But  to  them  it  seemeth  best, 
For  they  lie  at  ease  and  know  that  life  is  done. 

Mr.  President,  I  ask  to  have  inserted  in  the  Record,  as 
a  supplement  to  my  remarks,  the  address  delivered  at  Mr. 
HAYWARD' s  funeral  by  the  Rev.  H.  L.  House. 

The  PRESIDING  OFFICER.  Without  objection,  permis 
sion  to  do  so  will  be  granted. 


Address  of  Mr.  Thurston,  of  Nebraska.  15 

The  address  referred  to  is  as  follows: 

Remarks  by  Rci'.  H.  L.  House  at  the  funeral  of  I'nited  States  Senator 
Monroe  Leland  Hayward,  Nebraska  City,  Nebr. ,  December  7,  /Syo. 

"Each  man's  life  is  all  men's  lesson,"  says  a  modern  poet.  No  one 
closes  his  earthly  career  without  furnishing  in  his  life  and  death  valuable 
instruction  to  those  left  behind.  Vices  that  blacken,  virtues  that  ennoble, 
mistakes  that  embitter,  successes  that  make  glad,  each  and  all  in  turn 
teach  lessons  we  do  well  to  heed.  "No  man  liveth  xinto  himself,  and  no 
man  dieth  unto  himself." 

Garfield  is  Iving  there  upon  his  deathbed.  The  days  of  pain  have 
lengthened  into  weeks  of  agony  while  a  nation  gathers  about  in  prayer 
and  in  tears.  From  across  the  waters  Gladstone  sends  greeting  in  these 
words:  "  In  the  name  of  our  common  Master  I  congratulate  you  upon  your 
Christian  fortitude."  As  nobly  in  his  death  as  in  his  life  did  that  noble 
man  give  witness  to  the  power  that  sustained  him.  A  woman  in  China 
lies  dying.  The  light  of  the  gospel  of  the  Son  of  God  has  but  just  entered 
her  darkened  heart,  and  now  death  claims  her.  What  may  she  do  for  the 
ignorant  sisters  about  her  before  her  earthly  light  goes  out?  She  can  not 
tell  them  of  Jesus;  her  strength  will  not  permit  it.  But  she  has  seen 
manv  a  heathen  die;  she  has  witnessed  their  despair,  heard  their  shrieks 
of  fear.  Turning  to  her  friends,  she  says:  "Bear  me  out  into  the  open 
air;  call  to  my  side  friend  and  neighbor  and  the  chance  passer-by,  that 
they  may  see  how  a  Christian  dies." 

"  Mark  the  perfect  man  and  behold  the  upright,  for  the  end  of  that  man 
is  peace."  Where  God  would  teach  us  how  we  ought  to  live,  how  we  may 
live,  He  sent  His  Son  into  the  world  to  be  born  of  a  woman  and  to'  live  a 
sinless  life  in  the  flesh,  and  so  God  incarnated  His  thought  of  manhood, 
and  at  the  feet  of  the  Christ  the  world  sits  to-day  in  reverent  study,  learn 
ing  from  the  Man  how  to  translate  truth  into  conduct. 

The  Scriptures  therefore  justify — nay,  they  seem  to  demand — that  we 
pause  a  moment  ere  we  lay  away  the  sacred  dust,  to  study  the  life  just 
ended  among  us.  Into  the  details  of  that  life  I  shall  not  enter.  The  press 
has  already  done  that.  That  part  of  his  life  in  which  the  great  public  is 
specially  concerned  I  may  pass  by  with  a  brief  mention.  That  service  is 
by  right  the  sad  privilege  of  his  associates  in  public  life.  It  is  of  Mr. 
HAYWARD  the  man  I  wish  to  speak,  and  to  voice  as  best  I  may  the  feel 
ings  of  these  friends  and  neighbors  gathered  here  in  such  numbers  to  pay 
tribute  to  his  worth. 

Some  homely  lessons  this  man's  life  has  illustrated  and  still  enforces — 
lessons  this  generation  is  prone  to  forget,  upon  which  it  ought  often  and 
long  to  meditate.  And  first,  I  notice,  true  success  does  not  depend  upon 
the  accidents  of  birth  or  fortune. 

The  highest  gift  in  the  power  of  the  people  to  bestow  is  possible  to  every 
rank  and  station.  Men  of  humble  birth,  whose  early  years  were  a  battle 


1 6         Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Havward. 

with  circumstances  that  compelled  most  rigid  economy,  have  reached 
among  us  social  and  political  leadership.  The  dream  of  England's  gifted 
poet  has  more  than  once  been  fulfilled  011  American  soil,  where  some — 

Divinely  gifted  man 
Whose  life  in  low  estate  began 
And  on  a  simple  village  green; 

Who  breaks  his  birth's  invidious  bars 
And  grasps  the  skirts  of  happy  chance 
And  breasts  the  blows  of  circumstance 

And  grapples  with  his  evil  stars; 
Who  makes  by  force  his  merit  known 
And  lives  to  clutch  the  golden  keys, 
To  mold  a  mighty  state's  decrees 
And  shape  the  whisper  of  a  throne; 
And  moving  up  from  high  to  higher 

Becomes  on  Fortune's  crowning  slope 
The  pillar  of  a  people's  hope, 
The  center  of  a  world's  desire. 

Not  in  prophecy  of  what  may  be,  but  in  description  of  what  actually  is 
under  American  skies  at  the  dawn  of  the  twentieth  century,  do  we  recite 
these  words  in  the  ears  of  the  young  men  of  to-day.  Leadership,  head 
ship,  kingship  in  social  life  and  statecraft  are  among  the  future  possibili 
ties  of  the  barefoot  lad  who  swings  the  bat  on  the  village  ball  ground. 
Seventeen  dollars  in  money  and  a  mother's  blessings  were  Gar  field's  earthly 
possessions  as  he  entered  upon  the  struggle  which  lifted  him  to  national 
honor. 

Mr.  HAYWARD'S  life  began  in  a  typical  Eastern  home  of  a  generation 
ago.  In  that  home  Christian  influences  dominated,  the  more  manly, 
robust  virtues  were  inculcated,  and  the  bread  eaten  was  won  by  honest 
industry.  Out  from  that  home  in  early  manhood  Mr.  HAYWARD  came  to 
make  his  own  way  in  life,  he  himself  at  last  becoming  a  type  of  that 
American  of  whom  we  are  the  proudest  to-day — the  independent,  self-made 
citizen.  Bv  birth,  by  sympathy,  he  belonged  to  the  people.  He  was  our 
''  Great  Commoner.  "  He  identified  himself  with  the  so-called  "  masses  " 
period.  He  gave  a  ready  ear  and  a  helping  hand  to  the  needs  of  the 
struggling,  and  had  he  taken  his  seat  in  national  council,  even  there  he 
would  have  been  the  champion  of  the  weak  and  the  oppressed.  No  won 
der  the  people  loved  him. 

I  notice,  again,  that  Mr.  HAYWARD'S  life  illustrates  the  value  of  industry, 
I  do  not  understand  that  our  friend  was  dowered  with  unusual  natural 
gifts.  You  would  hardly  characterize  him  as  a  man  of  "brilliant  parts." 
His  was  an  intellect  trained  to  keenest,  most  discriminating  thought;  but 
it  was  an  intellect  trained.  His  was  a  massive  brain  commensurate  with  his 
magnificent  physique;  but  his  brain  fiber  was  the  product  of  long  years  of 


Address  of  Mr.  Thurston,  of  Nebraska.  17 

severest  mental  discipline.  It  was  his  custom  from  young  manhood  to 
grasp  present-day  problems;  to  weigh  them,  ponder  them,  master  them. 
These  problems  have  grown  more  subtle,  more  difficult  of  master}-,  and  in 
trying  to  keep  himself  abreast  of  his  age  Mr.  HAYWARD'S  brain  was  kept 
at  its  utmost  tension.  He  was  a  student,  a  hard  worker.  He  never 
dawdled.  With  Lord  Derby  he  could  say,  "Whether  I  be  happy  or  un 
happy  is  not  my  chief  concern;  what  most  concerns  me  is  to  find  my 
work  in  life,  to  recognize  it,  and  to  do  it."  He  dignified  toil.  His  life 
was  an  apotheosis  of  the  plodder. 

But  come  closer  to  this  man  and  learn  the  value  of  honesty. 

I  know  the  opinion  prevails  in  some  circles  that  if  a  man  would  be  suc 
cessful  in  business  or  in  politics  he  must  not  have  too  nice  notions  of  right 
and  wrong;  that  he  must  play  fast  and  loose  with  morals,  juggle  with 
conscience,  make  compromise  with  sin.  In  some  circles  it  is  the  thing  to 
sneer  at  Puritanism  and  laud  the  "smart"  man  whose  shrewdness  laughs 
at  the  Decalogue.  How  our  friend's  life  refutes  such  teachings!  What 
was  it  one  year  ago  in  the  brilliant  campaign  that  reduced  so  greatly  the 
large  majority  of  the  two  years  previous  and  almost  made  our  friend  the 
chief  executive  of  this  State?  What  was  it  a  little  later  that  elected 
MONROE  LELAND  HAYWARD  to  the  Senate  of  the  United  States?  This 
one  thing,  so  conceded  by  all,  Mr.  HAYWARD'S  downright  honesty.  He 
had  lived  an  upright  life.  "He  locked  his  lips  too  tight  to  tell  a  lie.  He 
washed  his  hands  too  clean  to  take  a  bribe. ' ' 

He  had  a  clean  record.     There  was  nothing  he  needed  to  conceal. 

And  more  than  once  God  has  taught  this  nation  this  self-same  lesson, 
aye,  written  it  large,  so  that  the  wayfaring  man  may  see  it.  Look  back 
there  some  forty  years  ago.  Our  country  is  in  turmoil ;  her  very  existence 
threatened.  Envy,  jealous}-,  hatred,  party  greed,  sectional  bitterness,  and 
over  it  all  the  black,  ominous  cloud  of  coming  war  across  which  the  light 
nings  begin  to  gleam  in  dread  portent.  Is  democracy  doomed?  Can  the 
Union  be  preserved?  Has  God  abdicated  His  throne?  Is  there  anywhere 
a  hand  that  can  guide  in  safety  over  these  swirling  waters  our  ship  of 
state?  And  now  God  stretches  out  his  hand  to  write.  A  party  then 
hardly  known  lays  hold  upon  one  wnose  fame  but  yesterday  was  limited 
to  his  own  State  and  makes  him  its  standard  bearer.  And  now  they  ring 
out  their  rallying  cry,  at  once  a  protest  and  a  challenge,  "  Honest  Old 
Abe,"  and  on  a  wave  of  popular  enthusiasm  Abraham  Lincoln  is  lifted  to 
the  Presidential  chair  because  the  conviction  had  fastened  itself  upon  the 
popular  heart  that  here  was  a  man,  raised  up  from  among  the  common 
people,  who  could  be  implicitly  trusted. 

"A  good  name  is  rather  to  be  chosen  than  great  riches,"  words  that 
God  seems  to  have  chiseled  in  the  noble  face  of  our  friend  now  lying  in 
repose  before  us.  How  many  public  men  during  the  past  few  years  have 
fallen  into  obscurity  because  of  their  connection  with  some  disreputable 
transaction.  How  many  men  of  wealth,  of  great  intellectual  power,  of 
S.  Doc.  455 2 


1 8         Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hay  ward. 

social  standing,  never  may  hold  any  public  office  because  their  names  bear 
the  taint  of  dishonorable  dealing.  The  feeling  has  taken  root  and  is 
growing  in  the  heart  of  the  nation,  in  spite  of  wickedness  in  high  places, 
that  men  of  doubtful  character  shall  not  represent  us  before  the  nations 
of  the  earth;  that  to  clean  hands  and  pure  hearts  shall  be  committed  our 
great  public  trusts.  Already,  other  things  being  equal,  the  man  of  blame 
less  life  wins  the  prize  that  noble  ambition  covets.  The  man  to-day  who 
would  hold  high  office  in  our  nation  woiild  do  well  to  meditate  upon 
Jethro's  advice  to  Moses,  "  Provide  out  of  all  the  people  able  men,  such 
as  fear  God,  men  of  truth,  hating  covetousness,  and  place  such  to  be  rulers 
over  you." 

But  let  us  draw  still  closer  to  this  man  and  learn  the  value  of  genuineness . 

Our  friend  was  honest  in  action  not  simply  because  "honesty  is  the  best 
policy."  His  outward  life  but  conformed  itself  to  an  inner  principle.  He 
could  express  himself  in  no  other  way.  True  character  has  no  need  of 
cloaking  itself  with  pretense.  Inclination  and  duty  yoke  themselves 
together.  Moral  integrity  characterized  Mr.  HAYWARD'S  conduct  because 
his  character  was  transparently  genuine.  How  he  hated  shams!  How  he 
scorned  the  hypocrite!  How  powerless  was  friend  or  foe  to  whip  him  into 
any  line  of  action!  How  he  fretted  against  restraint!  And  how  impolitic 
he  ofttimes  was  in  speech,  judged  by  selfish  standards! 

He  was  a  man  of  strong  convictions.  He  saw  clearly;  he  believed  firmly ; 
he  fought  consistently,  and  as  the  brave  fight.  He  never  could  have  been 
a  leader  in  guerrilla  warfare.  In  ambush  or  in  trench  he  was  not  at  his 
best.  But  in  an  open  field,  where  carnal  weapons  or  opposing  principles 
clashed,  there  at  the  forefront  would  you  find  him,  the  bravest  of  the 
brave.  You  might  differ  with  him  widely  on  matters  of  vital  moment, 
but  he  always  compelled  your  reluctant  confession,  "He  himself  believes 
what  he  professes. ' ' 

He  was  a  born  orator.  Thought  came  to  him  run  in  the  oratorical  mold. 
He  could  best  marshal  in  ordered  ranks  every  faculty  of  his  being  when 
on  his  feet  and  before  an  expectant  audience.  And  never  was  he  grander 
than  when,  in  the  glow  of  a  public  address,  under  the  inspiration  of  a 
cause  which  his  heart  had  espoused,  he  unmasked  and  scourged  some 
traitor  to  that  cause.  How  his  eyes  flashed!  How  his  words  stung!  In 
famy  seemed  branded  on  the  craven's  brow.  No  wonder 'the  trickster 
hated  him  and  the  "ring"  feared  him. 

It  was  this  quality  in  him  that  made  him  such  a  stanch  friend  and  that 
won  for  him  such  warm  love.  Years  ago  he  became  almost  passionately 
attached  to  the  soldier  of  the  Republic,  and  to  the  day  of  his  death  any 
man  was  dear  to  him  who  wore  the  G.  A.  R.  button  upon  his  breast. 

Recall  that  scene  in  our  legislative  hall  last  winter.  The  long  struggle 
is  over,  the  last  ballot  is  announced,  and  Mr.  HAYWARD  is  called  to  the 
platform  for  a  speech.  Briefly,  tactfully,  he  recalls  the  struggle  just 
ended,  forecasts  with  a  prophet's  ken  the  great  struggles  to  come,  and  then 
turns,  with  a  voice  that  chokes,  to  thank  the  men  who  had  •  so  loyally 


Address  of  Mr.  Thurston,  of  Nebraska.  19 

supported  him — the  "Old  Guard,"  as  he  significantly  calls  them— promis 
ing  to  do  for  them  anything  that  may  honorably  be  done  by  their  Senator. 
It  was  the  heart  of  the  man  who  then  spake,  as  tender  a  heart  as  ever  beat 
in  a  woman's  breast.  I  am  not  surprised  that  strong  men  stood  there 
with  tears  running  down  their  faces  as  they  witnessed  the  scene. 

And  withal  our  friend  was  an  unselfish  man.  There  are  those  who,  like 
the  sunglass,  catch  the  rays  of  fortune  and  focus  their  warmth  upon  a 
selfish  altar  beneath.  There  are  others  who  receive  these  same  rays,  and 
like  the  prism,  send  out  their  beauty  upon  others.  Mr.  HAYWARD  was  of 
the  latter  class.  He  could  not  shut  himself  up  to  narrow,  selfish  interests. 
His  sympathies  were  broad.  He  was  public  spirited.  He  gave  of  himself 
and  of  his  means  to  those  who  made  appeal  to  him.  The  poor  have  lost 
in  him  a  friend;  the  city  one  of  its  most  liberal  citizens. 

For  years  I  have  gone  in  and  out  of  this  home  where  we  to-day  are 
gathered  because  of  a  friend's  privilege  freely  accorded.  I  shall  not  abuse 
that  privilege  by  lifting  the  veil  love  throws  over  the  place  where  its 
chief  treasures  are  gathered.  Enough  for  me  to  say  that  a  most  sweet  and 
gracious  presence  has  abided  here  and  that  in  many  respects  this  has  been 
an  ideal  home.  A  tender  husband,  an  indulgent  father,  a  loyal  friend,  an 
enterprising  citizen,  a  clean  politician,  a  true  patriot  has  lived  his  almost 
threescore  years  among  us  and  to-day  is  not,  for  God  has  taken  him.  Yes, 
a  true  patriot.  One  day  when  a  great  crisis  was  upon  our  Common 
wealth,  and  Mr.  HAYWARD  had  done  his  very  best  to  avert  from  us  what 
seemed  to  him  a  pending  ruin,  walking  the  floor,  as  his  custom  was 
when  deeply  wrought  upon,  he  turned  to  a  loved  one  and  said,  with  tears 
in  his  eyes,  "I  think  I  know  a  little  of  what  John  Knox  felt  when  he 
went  alone  before  God  and  cried,  '  O  God,  give  me  Scotland  or  I  die! '  for 
from  my  heart  I  can  say,  '  O  God,  give  me  Nebraska  or  I  die!'  "  That  is 
patriotism,  not  of  the  kind  that  flippantly  expresses  itself  on  some  public 
occasion,  but  patriotism  incarnated  in  the  citizen.  Would  to  God  we  had 
more  of  it.  Democracy  would  perish  without  it.  It  is  the  salt  of  a  nation, 
the  political  light  to  lighten  a  people.  Out  of  it  heroes  are  born,  and 
because  of  it  life  itself  is  willingly  laid  upon  the  country's  altar. 

Some  forty  years  ago  or  more,  while  yet  in  that  Eastern  home,  Mr, 
HAYWARD  professed  to  receive  Jesus  Christ  as  the  Son  of  God  and  his 
personal  Saviour,  and  united  himself  with  the  church  of  his  early  choice. 
A  few  months  ago,  just  after  election  to  the  Senate  of  the  United  States, 
among  the  letters  of  congratulation  received  was  one  in  which  this  expres 
sion  was  used,  "I  hope  you  love  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ."  His  private 
secretary  brought  the  letter  to  him  and  said:  "How  shall  I  answer 
this?"  Mr.  HAYWARD  read  it,  paused  a  moment,  his  face  grew  sober, 
thoughtful,  and  he  gravely  replied,  "Tell  him  I  do  love  the  Lord 
Jesus,"  In  his  last  conscious  moments,  while  struggling  with  pain,  a 
loved  one  says,  "Ask  the  Lord  to  help  you."  "He  is  helping  me," 
and  a  warm  pressure  of  the  hand  was  the  instant  reply. 

And  he  is  gone.      Verily  "all  flesh  is  grass   and    all    the   goodliness 


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thereof  as  the  flower  of  the  field.  The  grass  withereth,  the  flower 
fadeth  —surely  the  people  is  grass,"  Why  he  should  be  taken  just  now 
we  may  not  understand.  The  nation,  in  the  crisis  upon  it,  needs  such 
men  to  grapple  with  the  questions  of  the  hour  and  solve  them  in  a 
way  to  satisfy  the  demands  of  righteousness.  Our  Commonwealth,  our 
city,  mourn  his  death  and  may  not  be  reconciled,  while  friends  weep 
and  refuse  to  be  comforted.  Life  is  lonelier  to  us  all  since  he  has 
been  taken  away. 

And  he  is  gone  wrho  seemed  so  great — 

Gone;  but  nothing  can  bereave  him 

Of  the  force  he  made  his  own 

Being  here;  and  we  believe  him 

Something  far  advanced  in  state, 

And  that  he  wears  a  truer  crown 

Than  any  wreath  that  man  can  weave  him. 

Speak  no  more  of  his  renown, 

Lay  your  earthly  fancies  down, 

And  (upon  the  Father's  bosom)  leave  him — 

God  accept  him;  Christ  receive  him. 

"All  flesh  is  grass."  We  who  are  here  to-day  are  going  the  way  of  all 
the  earth.  Soon  for  us  the  golden  bowl  will  be  broken,  our  presence  will 
be  withdrawn,  the  mortal  will  disappear,  our  very  names  be  forgotten  for 
"the  things  that  are  seen  are  temporal."  But  somewhere  in  God's  wide 
universe  you  and  I  shall  still  be  living,  reaping  what  we  have  sown,  re 
warded  according  as  our  deeds  have  been,  for  "the  things  that  are  not 
seen  are  eternal."  How  shall  we  spend  our  earthly  lives?  To  what  shall 
we  devote  our  energies?  What  record  shall  we  leave  behind? 

"  'Tis  not  all  of  life  to  live,  nor  all  of  death  to  die."  Beyond  the  seen 
lies  the  unseen;  upon  the  shores  of  time  break  the  waves  of  eternity.  Out 
from  the  shadowy  land  hands  beckon  and  point  upward,  and  so  thin  the 
veil  between  the  mortal  and  the  immortal  that  the  "whispers  of  God  can 
be  heard  by  the  children  of  men."  Bare  and  gray  would  our  lives  stretch 
downward  to  the  grave  had  not  God  spoken  and  bidden  us  look  upward 
and  be  comforted.  Bright  and  sacred  grow  these  passing  moments  as 
faith  looks  beyond  the  hills  to  the  land  where  wrongs  are  righted,  hopes 
bear  fruitage,  and  growth  in  all  that  is  noble  and  passionately  longed  for 
here  shall  know  no  end. 

And  so  beside  the  silent  sea 

We  wait  the  muffled  oar. 
No  harm  from  Him  can  come  to  me 

On  ocean  or  on  shore. 

I  know  not  where  His  islands  lift 

Their  fronded  palms  in  air. 
I  only  know  I  can  not  drift 

Beyond  His  love  and  care. 


Address  of  Mr.  Fairbanks,  of  Indiana.  21 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  FAIRBANKS,  OF  INDIANA. 

Mr.  PRESIDENT:  I  rise  to  pay  my  brief  tribute  to  the  mem 
ory  of  MONROE  L.  HAYWARD,  late  a  Senator  of  the  United 
States  from  the  State  of  Nebraska.  My  personal  acquaint 
ance  was  not  such  as  to  enable  me  to  portray  with  complete 
ness  the  interesting  and  instructive  life  of  one  who  gave 
great  promise  of  a  successful  and  useful  career  in  this  his 
toric  Chamber.  Nor  is  it  necessary  that  I  should  attempt 
to  do  so,  for  that  has  been  so  well  and  faithfully  done  by 
the  skillful  and  master  hand  of  the  distinguished  Senator 
from  Nebraska. 

There  was  indeed  that  in  the  life  of  Mr.  HAYWARD  which 
was  ennobling.  There  was  that  in  his  character  which  was 
inspiring  and  elevating,  and  there  was  that  at  the  close  of 
his  career  which  was  strangely  pathetic. 

When  best  prepared  to  live  and  best  fitted  to  serve  the 
State,  the  final  summons  came.  He  had  wrought  his  way 
tediously  and  persistently  up  and  up  until  he  stood  supreme 
in  the  confidence  of  his  beloved  State.  He  held  the  com 
mission  of  the  great  State  of  Nebraska  to  this,  the  most 
exalted  Chamber  of  the  nation,  but  the  end  came  before  he 
took  his  official  oath. 

His  death  was  in  a  very  especial  sense  the  nation's  loss, 
for  he  would  have  brought  here  a  splendid  equipment  which 
was  the  abundant  fruit  of  large  experience  and  much  pro 
found  reflection.  There  is,  indeed,  in  this  hour  of  the 
nation's  history,  filled  with  momentous  questions  which 
gravely  concern  the  present  and  the  future,  need  in  high 


22          Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hayward. 

place  for  such  as  he — lofty  in  intellect,  exalted  in  purpose, 
conservative  and  judicial  in  judgment. 

During  my  brief  acquaintance,  when  I  was  permitted  to 
enjoy  the  hospitality  of  his  home,  I  was  greatly  impressed 
with  his  singular  frankness  and  directness  of  purpose.  His 
mental  processes  were  not  subtle  and  circuitous,  but  were 
as  open  and  palpable  as  the  day — the  unfailing  manifesta 
tion  of  a  generous  and  upright  heart.  He  looked  forward 
to  the  time  when  he  should  take  his  seat  in  the  Senate  with 
a  becoming  sense  of  the  great  responsibilities  which  he  was 
to  assume  and  addressed  himself  to  the  consideration  of 
the  leading  questions  which  were  to  engage  the  attention 
of  the  Congress,  for  he  wished  to  contribute  his  full  share 
toward  their  just  and  wise  decision.  He  wished  to  dis 
charge  creditably  and  in  full  measure  his  civic  duties. 

He  was  ranked  as  a  strong  partisan,  and  such  he  was, 
for  he  believed  that  through  his  party  was  to  be  accom 
plished  the  greatest  good  to  the  State.  He  believed  always 
in  clean  political  methods,  and  would  sanction  no  attempt 
to  prostitute  his  party  to  ignoble  ends.  His  party's  aims 
must  always  be  as  pure  and  exalted  as  his  own.  He  had 
for  his  party  and  himself  the  same  code  of  morals. 

His  career  was  essentially  self-wrought.  He  was  not 
debtor  to  merely  fortuitous  circumstance,  but  to  nature, 
for  generous  physical  and  intellectual  endowments  and  for 
superior  moral  courage,  the  courage  to  do  and  dare  for 
conscience's  sake.  He  was  a  philosopher  of  the  optimistic 
school,  and  saw  before  himself  perpetually  the  bow  of 
promise,  the  assurance  of  success,  if  he  but  pressed  on. 

His  life  was  spent  in  the  midst  of  the  conflict  of  the  great 
mass  of  the  common  people.  It  was  a  strenuous  life,  a 


Address  of  Mr.  Fairbanks,  of  Indiana.  23 

life  which  he  most  welcomed.  His  fiber  was  virile,  and 
he  answered  always  to  dnty,  which  was  his  imperious 
commander. 

In  young  manhood,  upon  the  battlefields  of  his  .country, 
at  the  bar,  and  upon  the  bench  he  met  every  demand  with 
unflinching  courage  and  with  a  perfect  sense  of  the  respon 
sibilities  which  devolved  upon  him.  He  was  actuated  by 
no  sinister  motives  or  unworthy  ambitions,  but  walked  the 
highway  of  life  a  candid,  sincere  man,  resolved  to  leave 
the  world  the  better  for  having  lived  his  brief  hour. 


24         Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hay  ward. 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  SPOONER,  OF  WISCONSIN, 

Mr.  PRESIDENT:  The  tribute  which  I  rise  to  pay  to  the 
memory  of  Senator  HAYWARD  is  entirely  sincere,  albeit 
entirely  unstudied.  Many  years  ago,  for  a  moment  only,  I 
met  him,  looked  into  his  face,  felt  the  grasp  of  his  hand 
and  the  welcome  of  his  cheery  voice.  That  moment,  fleet 
ing  though  it  was,  attached  me  to  him,  and  I  looked  forward 
with  pleasure  since  his  election  to  meeting  him  after  the 
lapse  of  years  as  a  member  of  this  body. 

The  Senator  from  Nebraska  [Mr.  Thurston]  has  referred 
to  the  uniqueness  of  this  ceremonial  in  that  the  Senate 
pauses  in  its  deliberations  to  pay  tribute  to  one  who,  while 
he  was  clothed  by  the  action  of  his  State  with  the  right  to 
sit  here,  was  never  permitted  by  the  God  who  rules  the 
world  and  the  fate  of  men  to  exercise  that  right.  It  is 
quite  proper,  however,  that  the  Senate  should  do  this,  for 
he  had  a  right  to  sit  here.  He  had  been  invested  with  that 
right  by  the  solemn  action  of  his  State,  and  by  a  long  life 
of  probity,  of  lofty  aspirations,  of  earnest  endeavor,  and  of 
fidelity  to  duty  in  every  relation  of  life  he  had  proven  him 
self  worthy  to  be  thus  honored  by  Nebraska. 

It  is  always  painful,  Mr.  President,  to  stand  by  an  open 
grave.  We  forget  that  "it  is  as  natural  to  die  as  it  is  to  be 
born."  It  is  peculiarly  sad  that  this  man,  who,  doubtless, 
for  many,  many  years  had  toiled  for  the  honor  of  a  seat  in 
this  body — I  mean  not  in  the  way  of  self-seeking,  but  by 


Address  of  Mr.  Spooner,  of  Wisconsin.  25 

preparation  for  the  discharge  of  high  public  duty — should 
have  been  stricken  at  the  moment  of  the  fruition  of  his 
ambition. 

It  is  sad  for  us  to  remember  that,  although  he  had  a  right 
to  come  here,  he  never  was  permitted  to  walk  to  the  desk 
with  his  colleague  and  take  in  our  presence  the-  oath  of 
office.  He  had  taken  the  oath  more  than  once  to  support 
the  Constitution  of  the  United  States.  He  took,  before  he 
reached  years  of  manhood,  the  oath  to  support  the  Constitu 
tion  of  the  United  States;  and  he  went,  pursuant  to  that 
oath,  Mr.  President,  under  the  flag  .which  floats  over  this 
Capitol,  the  flag  of  our  whole  country,  on  many  a  field  of 
battle  to  dare  death  and  all  that  the  fate  of  battle  might 
bring  to  him,  that  the  Government  might  live  forever  and 
that  that  flag  might  forever  float  over  a  reunited  and  harmo 
nious  people. 

His  life  is  a  fine  illustration  of  what  lofty  inspiration  and 
honest  effort  may  bring  to  one  living  iinder  our  institutions, 
willing  to  work  and  ambitious  to  succeed.  He  had  not  the 
aid  of  adventitous  circumstance,  Mr.  President.  He  walked 
along  the  pathway  almost  alone.  He  relied  upon  his  own 
efforts  and  upon  the  good  will  of  the  public  among  whom 
he  toiled,  as  he  commended  himself  to  their  confidence  and 
to  their  affection. 

P>efore  he  moved  to  Nebraska  he  lived  for  a  time  in  Wis 
consin,  and  I  have  been  told  of  him  and  of  his  life  there  that 
he  was  a  man  of  study,  a  young  man  of  great  sturdiness  of 
character,  one  who  could  not  be  allured  from  the  "straight 
way, ' '  and  that  he  was  a  man  who  brought  home  from  the 
camp  and  its  distractions  and  temptations  the  cleanly  heart 
of  a  Christian  soldier.  He  carried  away  from  my  people  to 


26         Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hayward. 

his  home  in  Nebraska  their  confidence  and  their  respect, 
and  he  left  behind  him  in  Wisconsin  a  fragrant  memory. 

I  had  occasion  once  in  my  professional  life  to  review  a 
brief  which  he  had  made  in  an  important  canse — the  only 
opportunity  which  ever  came  to  me  to  judge  of  his  capac 
ity  as  a  lawyer — and  it  impressed  me  much  as  the  argument 
of  an  able,  thoughtful,  strong  man,  who  met  in  a  manly 
and  direct  way  every  contention  of  his  opponents,  and  I 
remember  that  running  through  it  all  in  a  marked  degree 
was  that  "saving  common  sense,"  of  greater  value  always 
than  what  the  world  is  accustomed  to  consider  and  to  call 
"genius." 

We  may  not  know,  of  course,  the  dreams  which  he 
dreamed  of  service  and  triumphs  in  this  body.  His  ambi 
tion  to  come  here  was  an  honorable  ambition,  and  from  all 
there  was  in  the  man's  life,  as  testified  by  the  Senator  from 
Nebraska,  and  as  testified  by  the  action  of  the  State  which 
conferred  upon  him  this  great  honor,  we  may  well  know 
'  that  he  looked  upon  a  seat  in  this  body  not  so  much  as  in 
itself  an  honor,  but  as  a  conspicuous  opportunity  to  serve 
in  a  great  forum,  by  honest  and  faithful  effort,  the  people, 
that  thereby — and  there  is  no  other  reward  which  comes 
to  an  honest  man  in  public  life — he  might,  by  intelligent 
service  to  the  public,  attention  to  duty  and  the  courageous 
discharge  of  it,  add  to  his  reputation,  broaden  it,  and  win 
that  fame  which  an  appreciative  constituency  is  always 
willing  and  always  glad  to  give  to  those  who  serve  them 
faithfully  in  high  places. 

Mr.  President,  he  made  it  very  plain  by  his  life  that  in 
his  death  his  State  sustained  a  great  loss,  that  in  his  death 
the  Senate  sustained  a  great  loss,  and  that  had  he  been  per- 


Address  of  Mr.  Spooncr,  of  Wisconsin.  27 

initted,  in  the  providence  of  God,  to  come  among  us,  his 
comradeship  would  have  been  delightful  and  his  contribu 
tion  to  the  labor,  the  responsibility,  and  the  learning  of  this 
body  would  have  been  of  great  value. 

The  Senate  does  well,  although  unfamiliar  with  his 
face  and  although  his  voice  never  was  heard  in  this 
Chamber,  to  place  upon  its  permanent  records  this  tribute 
to  his  memory.  He  has  paid  his  debt  to  nature.  We 
here  pay  ungrudgingly  our  tribute  to  him  and  to  his 
manlv  character. 


28         Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hayzvard. 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  ALLEN,  OF  NEBRASKA. 

Mr.  PRESIDENT  :  It  is  proper  under  the  circumstances 
that  I  should  say  a  few  words  before  the  resolutions  shall 
be  .put  upon  their  passage  and  the  ceremony  closing  Con 
gressional  notice  of  the  deceased  is  concluded. 

MONROE  LELAND  HAYWARD  was  born  in  Willisboro, 
Essex  County,  N.  Y.,  December  22,  1840.  In  1861  he 
enlisted  in  the  Twenty-second  New  York  Volunteer  In 
fantry,  but  was  soon  transferred  to  the  Fifth  New  York 
Cavalry,  and  was  discharged  in  1862  "on  account  of  dis 
abilities  brought  on  by  sickness." 

He  was  educated  at  Fort  Edward  Institute,  graduating 
in  1866,  and  read  law  in  that  place  and  in  Whitewater, 
Wis.,  and  in  1867  settled  in  Nebraska  City,  Nebr.,  where 
he  died  December  5,  1899,  in  the  presence  of  his  wife  and 
children,  his  faithful  physician,  and  other  devoted  per 
sonal  friends. 

June  14,  1870,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Jennie  A.  Pelton, 
an  estimable  lady  of  Cold  Spring,  N.  Y.,  and  at  the  date  of 
his  death  left  surviving  him  his  wife,  two  sons,  Dr.  Edward 
P.  Hayward  and  Col.  William  H.  Hayward,  and  a  daughter, 
Miss  Mattie  A.  Hayward,  one  of  Nebraska's  fairest  and  best 
young  women. 

His  funeral  was  larp-ely  attended  by  his  neighbors  and 
the  prominent  men  of  the  State.  I  was  prevented  from 
being  present,  because  I  was  then  engaged  in  holding  a 
term  of  court  in  a  distant  part  of  the  State,  which  could 
not  be  adjourned.  My  acquaintance  with  the  dead  jurist 


Address  of  Mr.  Allen,  of  Nebraska.  29 

and  statesman  was  not  intimate.  He  resided  fully  150 
miles  from  the  place  of  my  residence;  and  having  no  busi 
ness  relations  with  him,  and  not  being  his  party  affiliant, 
there  was  nothing  but  the  soldierly  tie  of  comradeship  to 
bring  us  together.  But  I  frequently  conversed  with  him, 
and  on  several  occasions  listened  to  him  deliver  public 
addresses,  and  I  am  sufficiently  informed  of  his  personal 
worth  and  ability  to  enable  me  to  speak  of  him  in  the 
highest  terms  of  praise. 

Mr.  President,  I  judge  men  rapidly  and,  I  think,  with 
some  degree  of  accuracy,  and  I  do  not  hesitate  to  say  that 
in  my  judgment  Judge  HAYWARD  was  in  all  respects  a 
good  man.  He  was  a  devoted  husband  and  loving  father, 
and  he  reared  a  family  of  whom  any  man  might  well  be 
proud.  He  sought  the  means  of  promoting  the  happiness 
of  his  wife  and  children,  and  accumulated  wealth  that  they 
might  not  know  want  in  the  event  of  his  death,  or  of  his 
becoming  incapacitated  in  later  life  to  pursue  a  gainful 
occupation. 

He  was  a  good  lawyer  and  a  just  judge,  and  had  the 
esteem  and  confidence  of  the  bar  and  public  to  the  hour  of 
his  death.  Being  positive  in  his  nature,  he  had  enemies, 
but  they  were  few  and  unable  to  do  him  lasting  injury.  He 
was  a  partisan  in  politics,  and  believed  he  was  promoting 
the  welfare  of  his  country  by  obeying  the  commands  of  his 
party. 

He  was  God-fearing,  and  recognized  the  accountability  of 
all  mankind  to  the  Supreme  Ruler  of  the  Universe.  He 
believed  in  the  essential  doctrines  of  the  Christian  religion, 
and  sought  to  lighten  the  burdens  and  cheer  the  drooping 
spirits  of  his  fellow-men.  A  distinguished  citizen  and  near 


30         Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Playrvard. 

neighbor  of  Judge  HAYWARD,  who  knew  him  well,  wrote 
me  that  his  strongest  characteristic  was  "his  absolute  hon 
esty  in  his  home  life,  in  business  affairs,  and  in  politics." 
A  greater  tribute  could  not  be  paid  to  any  man. 

Mr.  HAYWARD  was  free  from  narrowness  and  envy  and 
cant.  He  was  not  a  hypocrite  or  a  pretender.  He  did  not 
permit  himself  to  become  jealous  of  the  promotion  or  good 
fortune  of  others,  which  was  in  marked  contrast  with  some 
of  his  political  associates. 

The  deceased  jurist  was  often  honored  with  high  and 
responsible  positions.  He  was  many  times  made  chairman 
of  the  Republican  State  convention,  and  in  1886  was 
appointed  judge  of  the  district  court  of  the  district  in  which 
he  resided.  He  was  a  member  of  the  constitutional  con 
vention  which  framed  the  present  constitution  of  Nebraska, 
and  in  the  various  positions  he  was  called  to  fill  he  dis 
played  marked  ability  and  aptitude  for  the  duties  which 
devolved  upon  him. 

In  his  death  his  family  have  suffered  an  irreparable  loss, 
the  State  has  lost  a  worthy  and  public-spirited  citizen,  and 
the  city  in  which  he  lived  a  man  of  real  worth  and  great 
merit.  Mr.  HAYWARD  trod  life's  thorny  path  with  firm 
step  and  head  erect,  and  "with  malice  toward  none  and 
charity  for  all"  did  his  duty  as  God  gave  him  the  vision  to 
see  it.  He  heeded  the  promptings  of  his  better  nature  and 
scattered  smiles  and  sunshine  among  those  with  whom  his 
lot  was  cast.  He  left  the  world  better  than  he  found  it, 
and  by  his  ability  and  honesty  of  purpose  added  much  to  its 
growth  and  happiness. 

The  sympathy  of  this  man  was  genuine,  and  his  alms 
giving  was  just  and  generous;  and  many  an  unfortunate 


Address  of  Air.  Allen,  of  Nebraska.  31 

fellow-traveler  was  helped  over  the  rough  places  of  life  by 
his  timely  aid.  The  death  of  Judge  HAYWARD  is  sincerely 
mourned  by  all  Nebraskans,  and  by  none  more  deeply  than 
myself.  He  had  just  been  elected  to  a  seat  in  this  Chamber 
and,  with  his  friends,  doubtless  looked  forward  to  the  time 
when  he  would  be  able  to  leave  a  permanent  record  of  his 
opinions  on  public  questions  in  this  great  Forum;  but  God, 
in  His  infinite  wisdom,  called  him  to  eternal  repose,  and  he 
now  peacefully  sleeps  in  the  soil  of  the  State  he  loved  so 
well. 

While  I  do  not  agree  that  Death  is  the  king  of  terrors, 
when  it  comes  in  the  natural  order  of  events  and  according 
to  the  course  of  nature,  it  is  always  sad,  and  doubly  so  when 
one's  life  has  not  reached  the  allotted  three-score  and  ten, 
and  his  work  is  unfinished.  But,  Mr.  President — 

Death  is  another  life.     \Ve  bow  our  heads 
At  going  out,  we  think,  and  straight 
Another  golden  chamber  of  the  King's, 
Larger  than  this  we  leave,  and  lovelier; 
And  then  in  shadowy  glimpses,  disconnect,  - 
The  story,  flower-like,  closes  thus  its  leaves. 
The  will  of  God  is  all  in  all.     He  makes, 
Destroys,  remakes,  for  His  own  pleasure  all. 

Judge  HAYWARD  had  lofty  hopes  and  aspirations.  They 
were  commendable  in  him,  for  they  were  pure  and  calcu 
lated  to  benefit  others  and  \vere  intended  to  ameliorate  the 
condition  of  his  fellow-men.  When  he  was  confined  to  his 
bed  by  his  last  illness,  and  heroically  struggling  for  life,  I 
watched  the  daily  report  from  his  home,  hoping  and  pray 
ing  that  his  disease  would  take  a  change  for  the  better  and 
that  he  would  be  restored  to  his  family  and  country  and 
permitted  to  serve  the  term  in  the  Senate  to  which  he  had 
been  elected  with  honor  to  his  State  and  credit  to  himself. 


32          Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hayward. 

But  it  was  otherwise  written  in  the  Book  of  Fate,  and  he 
has  been  called  to  the  mysterious  land  where  the  millions 
of  earth's  inhabitants  out  of  the  centuries  that  have  passed 
and  gone  have  been  called,  and  to  which  all  of  us  are 
rapidly  hastening-. 

Mr.  President,  it  would  serve  110  useful  purpose  for  me  to 
discuss  at  length  the  virtues  and  excellent  qualities  of  head 
and  heart  of  this  distinguished  citizen  of  my  State.  His 
memory  is  fresh  in  the  minds  of  the  people  of  Nebraska. 
His  purity  of  life,  his  brilliancy  of  intellect,  and  the  depths 
of  his  splendid  nature  are  too  well  known  to  require  any 
encomium  at  my  hands. 

It  was  Job,  I  think,  who,  when  after  the  great  affliction 
and  in  old  age,  approaching  dissolution,  exclaimed,  "If  a 
man  die,  shall  he  live  again?"  And  from  that  hour  to  this 
the  nameless  millions  that  have  inhabited  the  earth  have  in 
succession  asked,  "If  a  man  die,  shall  he  live  again?" 

To  me  it  seems  that  we  need  but  look  at  the  course  of 
the  seasons,  the  beauty,  system,  and  order  of  nature,  the 
perfect  harmony  eveiywrhere  prevailing,  and  remember  that 
the  desire  of  man  for  immortality  is  universal  in  all  races, 
in  all  climes,  and  under  all  conditions,  to  lead  us  to  the 
conviction  that  death  is  but  a  door  opening  from  the  grave 
to  eternal  life.  And  so  when  we  look  upon  the  cold  and 
pulseless  forms  of  those  we  knew  and  loved  in  life,  it  is 
with  the  assurances  that  their  dear  features,  beautified 
and  made  better  by  the  change  we  call  death,  will  again  be 
beheld  by  us  in  a  better  land,  in  which  sickness  and  death 
are  unknown. 

Channing  said  that  "immortality  is  the  glorious  discov 
ery  of  Christianity;"  and  so,  '"after  life's  fitful  fever"  is 


Address  of  Mr.  Allen,  of  Nebraska.  33 

ended  and  the  struggle  of  this  world  is  closed,  man  passes 
through  the  gateway  of  death  into  an  endless  and  blissful 
immortality. 

Mr.  President,  what  is  life  but  a  series  of  hopes  and 
aspirations  and  half-rewarded  struggles,  created  and  shaped 
by  circumstances  over  which  we  exercise  no  control?  We 
struggle  often  in  vain  to  mount  the  heights  of  knowledge 
and  ambition,  but  to  fall  at  last,  having  accomplished  noth 
ing.  The  law  of  constant  struggle  and  of  constant  change 
is  written  everywhere  and  on  everything.  Our  children  are 
born  and,  like  half-open  flowers,  wither  and  decay;  and 
those  who  have  trodden  well  life's  pathway  with  us  for  a 
time  fall  into  an  endless  sleep,  and  we  struggle  alone  to  the 
end. 

Is  all  this  struggle  and  sacrifice  to  be  rewarded  by  obliv 
ion?  No.  Man  does  live  after  death,  and  lives  eternally. 
And  so  to-day,  as  we  are  engaged  in  this  solemn  ceremony 
which  is  to  close  the  history  of  an  earthly  career,  and  as  we 
pay  deserved  tribute  to  the  life  and  character  of  one  who 
was  lately  of  our  number,  we  may  do  so  with  the  full 
assurance  that — 

'Tis  the  divinity  that  stirs  within  us; 

'Tis  heaven  itself  that  points  out  an  hereafter, 

And  intimates  eternity  to  man. 

S.  Doc.  455 3 


PROCEEDINGS  IN  THE  HOUSE. 

DECEMBER  19,  1899. 

Mr.  MERCER.  Mr.   Speaker,    I  desire  to   lay  before  the 
House  the  following  resolutions  passed  by  the  Senate. 
The  SPEAKER.   The  Clerk  will  report  the  resolutions. 
The  Clerk  read  as  follows: 

Resolved,  That  the  Senate  has  heard  with  deep  regret  and  profound 
sorrow  of  the  death  of  Hon.  MONROE  L.  HAYWARD,  lately  elected  Sen 
ator  from  the  State  of -Nebraska. 

Resolved,  That  the  Secretary  communicate  a  copy  of  these  resolutions 
to  the  House  of  Representatives. 

Resolved,  That,  as  a  further  mark  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  the 
deceased,  the  Senate  do  now  adjourn. 

Mr.  MERCER.  Mr.  Speaker,  later  in  the  session  the  dele 
gation  from  Nebraska  in  this  House  will  ask  that  time  be 
set  apart  for  the  purpose  of  paying  fitting  tribute  to  the 
memory  of  the  lately  elected  Senator  HAYWARD.  For  pres 
ent  purposes  I  offer  the  resolutions  which  I  send  to  the 
Clerk's  desk. 

The  Clerk  read  as  follows: 

Resolved,  That  the  Plouse  has  heard  with  profound  sorrow  and  deep 
regret  the  announcement  of  the  death  of  Hon.  MONROE  L,.  HAYWARD, 
lately  elected  a  Senator  from  the  State  of  Nebraska. 

Resolved,  That,  as  a  further  mark  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  the 
deceased,  the  House  do  now  adjourn. 

The  SPEAKER.  The  question  is  on  agreeing  to  the  reso 
lutions. 

The  resolutions  were  agreed  to. 

Accordingly  (at  2  o'clock  and  6  minutes  p.  m.)  the  House 
adjourned. 

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36  Proceedings  in  the  House. 

MARCH  13,  1900. 

Mr.  BURKETT.  Mr.  Speaker,  I  ask  unanimous  consent 
that  next  Saturday  after  i  o'clock  be  set  apart  for  eiilogies 
upon  the  late  Senator-elect  HAYWARD,  of  Nebraska. 

The  SPEAKER.  The  gentleman  from  Nebraska  asks 
unanimous  consent  of  the  House  that  next  Saturday,  after 
the  hour  of  i  o'clock,  be  set  apart  for  eulogies  on  the  life, 
death,  and  character  of  the  late  Senator-elect  HAYWARD. 
Is  there  objection? 

There  was  no  objection. 


.      MEMORIAL  ADDRESSES. 

MARCH  17,  1900. 

The  SPEAKER.  The  hour  of  i  o'clock  was  set  apart  for 
eulogies  on  the  late  Senator  HAYWARD;  and  as  there  is 
nothing  more  pending  before  the  House,  without  objection, 
the  exercises  will  be  taken  up  at  this  time. 

There  was  no  objection. 

Mr.  BURKETT.  Mr.  Speaker,  I  desire  to  offer  the  follow 
ing  resolutions,  and  ask  that  they  be  adopted. 

The  Clerk  read  as  follows: 

Resolved,  That  it  is  with  profound  sorrow  and  regret  that  the  House 
has  heard  of  the  death  of  Hon.  MONROE  I*  HAYWARD,  late  Senator-elect 
from  the  State  of  Nebraska. 

Resolved,  That,  as  a  mark  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  the  deceased, 
the  business  of  the  House  be  suspended  to  enable  his  friends  to  pay  proper 
tribute  of  regard  to  his  high  character  and  distinguished  worth. 

Resolved,  That  the  House  communicate  these  resolutions  to  the  Senate 
and  transmit  a  copy  thereof  to  the  family  of  the  deceased  with  the  action 
of  the  House  thereon. 

Resolved,  That,  as  an  additional  mark  of  respect,  the  House,  at  the  con 
clusion  of  these  ceremonies,  _do  adjourn. 

The  resolutions  were  agreed  to. 

Mr.  BURKETT.  Mr.  Speaker,  the  gentleman  from  Ne 
braska,  Mr.  Robinson,  is  not  able  to  be  present  to-day,  and 
I  ask  unanimous  consent  that  permission  be  given  to  him, 
and  to  such  other  gentlemen  as  would  like  to  avail  them 
selves  of  the  privilege,  to  print  their  remarks  in  the  Record. 

The  SPEAKER.  The  gentleman  from  Nebraska  asks 
unanimous  consent  to  permit  members  to  print  remarks  on 
the  pending  order.  Is  there  objection?  [After  a  pause.] 
The  Chair  hears  none,  and  it  is  so  ordered. 

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38         Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hayward. 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  BURKETT,  OF  NEBRASKA. 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  In  beginning  my  remarks  I  desire  to  read 
a  little  from  the  Congressional  Directory  of  the  first  session 
of  the  Fifty-sixth  Congress: 

MONROE  ICELAND  HAYWARD,  Republican,  of  Nebraska  City,  was  born 
in  Willsboro,  Essex  County,  N.  Y.,  December  22,  1840;  enlisted  in  the 
Twenty-second  New  York  Infantry  at  the  beginning  of  the  civil  war,  and 
was  afterwards  transferred  to  the  Fifth  New  York  Cavalry;  discharged  in 
December,  1862,  owing  to  disability  arising  from  sickness;  on  returning 
home  entered  Fort  Edward  Collegiate  Institute,  where  he  completed  his 
education;  in  the  meantime  his  father  had  removed  to  Wisconsin,  and  he 
followed;  studied  law  at  Whitewater,  Wis.,  and  removed  to  Nebraska  in 
1867,  settling  at  Nebraska  City,  where  he  has  resided  ever  since  and  prac 
ticed  his  profession;  was  a  member  of  the  State  constitutional  convention 
in  1873;  filled  out  a  term  on  the  district  bench  by  appointment  of  the 
governor  in  1886;  was  the  Republican  candidate  for  governor  in  the  falJ 
of  1898,  and  was  defeated  by  3,000  votes;  was  elected  United  States  Sen 
ator,  to  succeed  William  Vincent  Allen,  March  8,  1899. 

His  term  of  service  will  expire  March  3,  1905. 

That  is  briefly  the  life  of  onr  late  beloved  Senator  from 
Nebraska  as  the  compiler  wrote  it. 

But  that  was  written  while  the  Senator  was  yet  alive  and 
among  us.  Now  it  does  not  satisfy  us.  We  would  know 
more  of  him.  We  would  go  into  detail,  follow  his  life 
more  closely,  and  from  it  draw  inspiration  and  hope. 

When  that  was  written  we  did  not  need  more,  we  did  not 
want  more,  for  he  was  himself  to  all  who  knew  him — the 
revelation  of  his  own  life  and  character,  most  reliable  and 
instructive  and  impressive. 

His  life,  like  a  book,  could  not  be  published  until  the 
last  chapter  was  written,  for  it  was  growing  better  and 


Address  of  Mr.  Burkctt,  of  Nebraska.  39 

broader  and  more  beautiful  all  the  while.  But  he  has  gone 
from  among  us.  The  deeds  of  his  life  are  now  history, 
and  what  may  be  said  of  him  will  need  no  revision  for 
subsequent  data. 

We  have  set  apart  this  day  for  eulogy  upon  his  life  and 
character,  and  when  those  who  wish  shall  have  spoken  we 
shall  adjourn  this  House  out  of  respect  to  his  memory. 

The  biography  which  I  have  just  read  is  but  a  paragraph. 
It  covers  but  a  small  part  of  one  page  of  the  book.  All 
men's  history  can  be  told  in  about  equal  time  while  they 
live.  The  little  and  the  great  alike  need  but  small  space 
and  little  of  printer's  ink  to  satisfy  their  fellow-men. 

But  how  different  after  death.  So  long  as  a  man  lives 
we  are  content  with  a  modicum  of  information  about  him, 
comparatively  speaking.  We  like  to  know  whence  he 
sprung,  his  source,  and  in  some  instances  his  resources, 
what  he  is  capable  of  doing,  what  he  has  accomplished,  and 
what  he  is  now.  From  a  laboring  man  applying  for  em 
ployment  to  a  Presidential  candidate  the  category  varies 
but  little.  Hence  his  birthplace,  his  acquired  titles,  and 
his  politics  are  about  all  the  Clerk  has  put  in  the  Congres 
sional  Directory. 

But  that  is  not  sufficient  now.  It  does  not  satisfy  us. 
There  is  a  longing  to  know  more  of  him.  We  want  to 
know  not  merely  where  he  was  born  and  when,  but  what 
made  him  Senator.  Ah!  more  yet  than  that.  We  not  only 
would  know  what  made  him  Senator  HAYWARD,  but  what 
made  him  the  great-hearted,  noble-minded,  and  beloved 
"Judge  Hayward,"  as  we  knew  him  so  long. 

These  latter  traits  made  him  Senator.  The  office  added 
nothing  to  his  "parts,"  nor,  indeed,  to  the  affection  of  his 


4-O         Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hayward. 

constituents.  The  office  was  but  the  expression  of  that 
affection. 

Those  of  us  who  knew  Senator  HAYWARD  (and  I  regret 
that  you  did  not  all  know  him  well)  realize  that  no  biog 
raphy,  of  whatever  dimensions,  will  ever  do  justice  to  his 
character  and  ability,  and  that  no  eulogy  will  compute  the 
good  that  he  has  accomplished. 

The  choicest  things  in  a  great  man's  life  can  never  be 
written.  They  assume  forms  for  which  the  human  lan 
guage  has  no  words  delicate  enough  to  describe. 

There  is  a  power  of  presence  indescribable  in  a  truly 
great  man,  and  while  understood  and  appreciated  it  can  not 
be  told.  There  are  no  words  for  it. 

By  this  power  of  presence  or  personality  in  a  man,  inde 
scribable,  and  its  influence  for  good,  I  speak  of  the  influence 
which  Lowell  meant  when  he  said: 

The  very  room,  coz  she  was  in,  seemed  warm  from  floor  to  ceiling. 

I  speak  of  the  power  of  the  presence  alone  of  Napoleon, 
which  the  Duke  of  Wellington  said  "equaled  forty  thou 
sand  men."  I  speak  of  the  presence  of  a  godly  man, 
though  he  say  not  a  word.  I  speak  of  the  air  surrounding 
a  great  man,  the  potent  force,  the  "still  small  voice"  of 
living  and  doing  and  walking  and  acting  that  can  not  be 
told. 

Nevertheless  it  is  there  and,  like  the  subtle  aroma  of  the 
rose,  permeates  the  entire  community  in  which  he  is,  and 
all  men  and  things  are  better  and  sweeter  because  he  lives. 

Most  books  are  read  by  scanning  the  title  page,  perhaps, 
then  glancing  at  the  introduction,  and,  possibly,  casually 
looking  over  the  index.  There  are  few  books  that  stand 
this  test  sufficientlv  to  warrant  further  consideration. 


Address  of  Mr.  Burkett,  of  Nebraska.  41 

Bacon  says: 

Some  books  are  to  be  tasted,  others  are  to  be  swallowed,  and  some  few 
are  to  be  chewed  and  digested. 

And  as  with  books  so  with  men.  Not  all  will  sustain 
extended  biographies.  The  deeds  of  life  have  not  merited 
it,  nor  will  the  resulting  benefits  to  the  world  warrant  it. 

If  biography  is  ever  beneficial  and  worthy  of  reading, 
if  the  deeds  and  motives  are  ever  worthy  of  example,  we 
may  well  give  ear  to  the  life  and  acts  and  motives  of  our 
late  Senator. 

Extend  his  biography,  and  you  have  the  history  of 
Nebraska.  Extol  his  virtues,  and  you  have  noble  example. 
Recite  his  deeds,  and  you  get  inspiration.  The  world  is 
better  because  he  lived.  He  did  something  for  his  State, 
his  country,  and  humanity. 

He  came  to  Nebraska  the  year  that  the  State  came  into 
the  Union  of  States.  As  Nebraska  assumed  the  responsi 
bilities  of  statehood  he  donned  the  toga  of  a  Nebraska  citi 
zen.  Nebraska  was  a  young  State,  and  he  was  a  young 
man.  Nebraska  grew,  and  he  developed  with  her.  He 
endured  the  cares  and  vicissitudes  of  the  new  country  and 
waxed  strong  in  their  midst.  He  and  the  State  grew 
together. 

Senator  HAYWARD  was  never  for  a  moment  a  blank  in 
Nebraska  affairs.  The  State  needed  his  counsel  and  his 
indomitable  energy  every  moment.  He  was  not  an  "office 
holder,"  nor,  indeed,  an  "  office  seeker;"  but  the  story  of  the 
State  could  not  be  written  with  him  left  out.  He  framed 
her  constitution  as  a  member  of  the  convention.  He  coun 
seled  in  her  legislation.  He  interpreted  her  laws  as 
judge.  He  broke  her  boundless  prairies  and  turned  them 


42         Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hayward. 

into  a  cornfield  unsurpassed  in  the  world;  he  developed  her 
industries;  he  brought  to  every  question  and  condition 
thrift,  energy,  integrity,  perseverance,  and  industry. 

With  these  qualities  he  mastered  the  problems  that  con 
fronted  the  new  State,  and  instead  of  chaos  and  uncertainty 
set  up  law  and  order.  And  with  these  instruments  of  peace 
and  tranquillity  he  brought  to  her  fame  and  respect  abroad ; 
security  and  confidence  at  home. 

He  was  always  a  conspicuous  figure  in  Nebraska.  From 
the  time  of  his  arrival  in  the  State  he  was  associated  with 
and  in  competition  with  the  strongest  men  intellectually. 
He  settled  in  Nebraska  City,  where  have  lived  many  of  the 
strongest  men,  not  only  in  our  State,  but  in  the  nation. 

He  had  for  his  contemporaries  at  home  such  men  as  O.  P. 
Mason,  late  chief  justice  of  our  supreme  court  and  a  man 
of  giant  intellect;  Senator  Tipton,  who  but  recently  died 
in  this  city,  acknowledged  to  be  one  of  the  strongest  men 
who  ever  sat  in  the  American  Senate,  and  Senator  Van 
Wyck,  who  doubtless  many  here  now  will  remember. 
Hon.  J.  Sterling  Morton,  of  whom  all  Nebraskans  are 
proud  as  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  in  Mr.  Cleveland's 
Cabinet,  also  lives  in  the  same  city,  and  has  been  his  neigh 
bor  and  contemporary  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century. 

Mr.  Morton  and  Mr.  HAYWARD  did  not  always  agree  in 
politics.  Against  each  other  there  was  waged  the  bitterest 
warfare  politically.  Each,  the  leader  of  his  own  party,  of 
course  received  full  front  the  onslaughts  of  the  other. 
Each  had  been  the  candidate  of  his  party  for  the  highest 
gift  within  the  elective  power  of  the  people  of  the  State  ; 
but,  to  the  glory  of  both,  in  1898,  when  Judge  HAYWARD 
was  the  candidate  for  governor,  Mr.  Morton  threw  aside  all 


Address  of  Mr.  Burkett,  of  Nebraska.  43 

political  prejudices,  sunk  old  animosities  beneath  his  great 
love  of  home  and  State  and  the  vital  principles  for  which 
Mr.  HAYWARD  stood,  and,  leaving  behind  him  political 
traditions,  supported  Mr.  HAYWARD. 

It  is  pleasant  to  recall  that  these  two  great  leaders,  for  a 
quarter  of  a  century,  of  opposing  forces,  always  personal 
friends,  should  stand  shoulder  to  shoulder,  heart  to  heart, 
and,  from  the  same  platform,  battle  for  the  same  principles 
and  truths  and  candidates  in  the  last  political  conflict  that 
Senator  HAYWARD  should  be  permitted  to  enter. 

Senator  HAYWARD  was  not  well  known  in  Washington, 
at  least  in  Senatorial  circles.  We  regret  that  it  is  so.  We 
are  proud  of  him  in  Nebraska,  and  every  man  in  the  Senate 
would  have  been  proud  of  him  as  a  colleague.  But  he  never 
occupied  a  chair  as  Senator.  The  silent  reaper,  Death,  cut 
him  off  from  the  world  before  he  was  permitted  to  enter 
this  Capitol  as  a  Senator.  He  was  not  permitted  to  adorn 
yonder  splendid  Chamber.  His  voice  had  no  opportunity 
to  give  utterance  to  his  wisdom  nor  to  express  his  kindli 
ness  of  heart. 

As  a  Senator  he  is  not  judged,  either  here  or  at  home, 
and  as  a  Senator  we  shall  not  speak  of  him.  For,  exalted  as 
that  position  is,  it  did  not  make  him  great.  He  was  exalted 
in  public  opinion  before  he  became  Senator.  He  was  a 
strong  man  and  beloved  without  the  title.  The  position 
was  but  a  golden  remembrance  from  his  loving  fellow- 
citizens. 

He  stood  high  as  a  lawyer  and  as  a  judge.  He  ranked 
well  as  a  business  man.  He  was  quick  of  perception,  keen 
in  discerning,  and  of  good  judgment.  His  counsel  was 
sought  in  all  affairs  as  worthy  of  consideration. 


44         Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hay  ward. 

He  was  a  student.  His  life  was  one  of  work.  His  was 
an  active  disposition.  No  stuffed  countenance  of  feigned 
learning  was  his;  no  assumed  u parts;"  no  arrogated  great 
ness  to  which  he  was  a  stranger.  But  what  he  appeared  to 
be  he  was,  and  what  he  was  was  apparent — a  strong- 
minded,  cultured,  unassuming  man. 

He  was  not  a  wit.  He  was  not  a  ' '  brilliant ' '  man  as 
commonly  expressed,  resplendent  in  the  effulgence  of 
natural  abilities  alone.  That  was  not  the  impression  he 
made.  His  was  the  trained  mind.  His  was  wisdom 
wrought  out  with  sledge-hammer  blows  in  imperishable 
steel.  His  years  of  careful  research  and  experience  had 
developed  a  giant  intellect.  His  contact  with  the  world 
had  molded  and  shaped  that  intellect  into  an  instrument 
of  power  and  beauty.  His  mind  was  a  gem  of  matchless 
worth;  yet  it  was  dressed  and  polished  only  as  a  pebble 
washed  down  the  dancing,  chattering  brook,  by  constant 
collision  with  the  debris  by  the  wayside. 

A  strong  mind,  a  firmness  of  purpose,  a  quickness  of 
resolution,  a  never-ending  devotion  to  what  he  laid  his 
hands  to,  made  his  attacks  irresistible  and  his  defense 
impregnable. 

With  these  qualities  he  wrought  for  the  world  and 
humanity,  and  for  this  he  is  loved.  It  is  always  by  what 
men  accomplish  that  they  are  measured ;  for  what  they  do 
that  they  are  loved  or  despised.  Men  are  not  measured  by 
what  they  are  capable  of  doing,  but  rather  by  what  they  do. 

I  once  heard  a  preacher  say  "There  are  many  untaught 
Jenny  Linds  on  Nebraska  prairies."  But  he  uttered  only 
half  a  truth,  and  he  could  not  prove  that  half  a  truth  suffi 
ciently  to  give  the  world  credence  in  his  statement.  And 


Address  of  Mr.  Burkett,  of  Nebraska.  45 

the  "just  as  good"  theory  neither  detracts  a  whit  from  her 
glory  nor  even  dims  the  luster  of  the  splendor  of  the 
matchless  warbler  of  "Home,  Sweet  Home." 

Intentions  and  possibilities  are  excuses.  Doing  and  ac 
complishing  defend  themselves.  The  heroes  of  all  ages 
and  all  people  have  been  those  who  have  done  something 
for  their  fellow-men,  and  by  it  have  won  their  admiration; 
men  whose  energy  shirked  no  responsibility  imposed  by 
instinct,  and  whose  instinct  was  fraternal. 

This  doing  for  our  fellows  may  not  always  consist  in 
saving  a  nation,  nor  of  leading  successful  armies.  It  may 
not  be  accomplished  in  the  halls  of  Congress  nor  from  the 
pulpit.  It  may  be  little  or  great,  but  in  the  measure  of  it 
is  man  loved. 

Senator  HAYWARD'S  life  is  a  rebuke  to  those  men  who 
seem  to  think  that  thrift  and  frugality,  or  rather  the  fruit 
of  thrift  and  frugality,  are  a  stamp  that  distinguishes  an 
enemy  of  human  kind.  He  was  a  successful  man  in  busi 
ness.  While  the  Eastern  press,  in  many  instances,  has 
largely  overestimated  his  fortune,  nevertheless  he  was,  for 
the  Middle  West,  considered  a  well-to-do  man. 

But  no  one  ever  impugned  his  motives  on  that  account. 
He  came  honestly  by  what  he  had.  It  was  the  fruit  of  his 
toilsome  effort. 

The  good  that  such  men  do  is  immeasurable  when  com 
pared  with  the  utterances  of  those  whose  only  aim  in  life  is 
to  array  unfortunate  humanity  and  worthless  humanity 
against  the  imaginary  bugbear  of  capital.  Capital  is  the 
fruit  of  head  and  hand.  Motive  is  of  the  heart  and  makes 
neither  rich  nor  poor,  but  in  both  alike  is  good  or  bad. 

These  manipulators  of  popular  passion  depreciate  every 


46         Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hayward. 

quality  of  energetic,  conservative,  industrious  living.  Such 
men  in  few  instances  do  much  of  good  for  their  locality  or 
mankind  in  general.  They  are  sterile  and  create  nothing. 
They  are  simply  circumstances.  They  just  stand  around. 

I  like  more  the  man  who  "inspires  the  heart;"  "incites 
to  better  deeds;"  and  whose  counsel  and  sayings  lift 
humanity  up  out  of  the  quagmire  of  gnarling. 

It  is  not  difficult  to  be  a  "kicker."  It  is  not  hard  to  be 
a  lawyer  "able  to  sit  on  the  court-house  steps  and  criticise 
the  Supreme  Court  decisions."  It  is  easy  to  tell  how  to 
better  things.  It  is  easier  to  condemn  than  to  bless.  It  is 
easy  to  tell  what  ought  to  be  done  for  the  State,  but  it 
takes  effort  to  do  something  for  the  State. 

As  I  have  said  before,  Senator  HAYWARD  wrought  for  the 
State.  He  was  a  successful  man  and  a  true  man. 

The  qualities  of  a  true  man  are  many,  but  Senator  HAY- 
WARD  had  them.  He  had  energy,  and  that  was  necessary, 
for  the  sluggard  impoverishes  himself,  foregoes  the  assist 
ance  of  his  neighbors,  and  merits  the  disrespect  of  all  men. 

He  had  method,  and  without  it  energy  results  in  much 
lost  motion.  He  gave  to  everything  application  and  faith 
fulness,  and  it  was  because  of  these  qualities  of  a  true  man 
that  he  was  successful;  for,  to  use  someone  else's  words — 

The  great  highroad  of  human  welfare  lies  along  the  old  highway  of 
steadfast  welldoing;  and  they  who  are  the  most  persistent  and  work  in 
the  truest  spirit  will  invariably  be  the  most  successful. 

He  was  attentive,  punctual,  and  industrious,  and  "  suc 
cess  is  more  often  on  the  side  of  the  industrious."  He 
was  honest  in  business  and  honest  in  the  social  world. 
These  are  the  qualities  of  a  true  man.  He  possessed  them, 
and  his  success  was  an  index  that  he  did  possess  them, 
and  not  the  brand  of  tyranny  and  oppression. 


Address  of  Air.  Burkett,  of  Nebraska.  47 

He  was  a  veteran  of  the  civil  war.  His  comrades  loved 
him.  They  had  pinned  their  faith  to  him.  They  be 
lieved  in  him.  They  depended  upon  him  for  assistance 
and  looked  forward  with  fondest  hopes  to  the  time  when 
he  should  come  011  to  Washington  to  assume  the  more 
active  duties  of  his  office.  For  they  believed  that  he 
would  solve  some  of  the  difficulties  that  stand  between 
them  and  the  Government's  generosity  in  their  declining 
years. 

He  knew  that  "the  pension  roll  was  a  roll  of  honor. " 
He  knew  the  heartaches  and  the  suffering  and  the  trials 
that  it  took  to  entitle  one  to  a  place  thereon. 

He  is  dead.  Our  people  mourn  because  of  his  death. 
Our  State  has  lost  a  splendid  citizen  and  an  important 
factor.  The  nation  is  deprived  of  a  valuable  counselor; 
but  humanity  has  left  his  noble  example  as  an  inspiration 
and  hope  for  coming  generations. 


48          Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hayward. 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  MERCER,  OF  NEBRASKA. 
Mr.  SPEAKER— 

As,  long  ago,  that  home-returning  band 

Of  Greeks,  victorious  o'er  outnumbering  foes, 
The  last  hard  mountain  won,  saw  sweet  repose 
And  safety  on  the  distant  ocean  strand, 
So  he  at  last  attained  what  he  had  planned, 
Triumphant  over  hate  and  envy  rose, 
And  saw  admittance  to  the  seats  of  those 
Most  honored  of  our  nation,  in  his  hand. 
But  rest  and  ease  were  not  for  him  to  ask; 

He  would  be  building  still  with  them  that  build; 

He  sought  the  cross,  now  that  he  had  the  crown. 
And  as  he  dressed  him  to  his  lofty  task, 
With  manhood's  aspiration  unfulfilled, 

Death  stretched  a  grisly  hand  and  struck  him  down. 
"United   States   Senator-elect   MONROE    LEI.AND    HAYWARD   died   at 
Nebraska  City  on  the  morning  of  Tuesday,  December  5,   1899,  aged  59 
years.       He  was  born  at  Willsboro,  Essex  County,  N.  Y. ,  December  22, 
1840." 

Senator  HAYWARD'S  youth  was  spent  on  a  farm.  He  received  a  com 
mon  school  education,  and  was  also  permitted  to  attend  seminaries  of 
learning  and  select  schools  at  intervals.  He  made  the  best  possible  use 
of  all  his  advantages. 

Early  in  1861  he  enlisted  in  the  Twenty-second  New  York  Volunteer 
Infantry.  In  October  of  that  year,  however,  he  became  a  member  of  the 
Fifth  New  York  Cavalry.  With  that  he  served  in  the  Shen^ndoah  Valley 
during  the  summer  of  1862.  He  did  special  courier  service  for  General 
Banks  during  that  year  and  also  participated  in  each  of  the  battles  of  the 
Banks-Jackson  campaign. 

In  the  autumn  of  1862  his  health  was  completely  broken  down.  There 
fore  he  was  discharged  from  the  Army  and  returned  to  civil  life.  Then  he 
commenced  the  struggle  for  completing  his  education  and  also  entered 
upon  the  study  of  law.  By  teaching  district  schools  and  by  manual  labor 
he  subsisted  himself  and  became  a  student  at  Fort  Edward  Institute, 
remaining  until  he  graduated  with  honor.  He  worked  his  way  through 
college  by  teaching  mathematics,  by  bookkeeping,  and  by  strenuous 
efforts,  manual  and  mental.  Self-reliance  and  self-denial  made  him  sturdy 
and  efficient. 


Address  of  Mr.  Mercer,  of  Nebraska.  49 

Directly  after  graduating  he  began,  at  Fort  Edward,  N.  Y.,  in  the  office 
of  Judge  Wait,  to  read  law.  He  subsequently  completed  his  legal  studies 
at  Whitewater,  Wis.,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1867.  Then  he 
located  permanently  at  Nebraska  City. 

Senator  HAYWARD,  from  the  beginning  to  the  end  of  his  useful  life, 
carried  determination  and  persistent  industry  into  all  his  enterprises  and 
undertakings.  Every  task  which  confronted  him  was  tackled  with  a  per 
sistent  pluck  that  could  result  only  in  achievement . 

The  citizens  of  Nebraska  City,  Otoe  County,  and  the  State  have  honored 
him  by  assigning  him  to  various  positions  of  trust  and  responsibility.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  board  of  education  for  this  city.  He  was  a  delegate 
in  the  constitutional  convention  of  1875.  He  was  many  times  chairman 
of  the  Republican  State  convention. 

In  private  and  domestic  life  he  was  a  model  of  fidelty,  industry,  and 
temperance.  His  love  of  home  and  family  (which  is  primary  patriotism) 
was  only  equaled  by  his  love  of  his  country  and  its  institutions. 

In  1898  he  was  chosen  by  the  Republican  party  of  the  State  as  its 
candidate  for  the  position  of  governor.  He  made  a  strong  and  very 
effective  canvass,  speaking  in  nearly  every  organized  county  of  the  Com 
monwealth.  The  labors  then  performed  did  much  to  undermine  his 
robust  and  powerful  physique. 

Being  defeated  by  Governor  Poynter,  he  at  once  became,  by  pressure 
of  his  friends  and  admirers,  the  candidate  of  the  Republican  party  for  a 
place  in  the  United  States  Senate,  and  was,  after  many  ballots,  finally 
chosen  to  that  honorable  position  by  the  legislature  of  Nebraska  in  March, 
1899. 

It  seems  cruel  that  just  as  a  man  has  entered  upon  a  field  of  usefulness 
and  eminence  toward  which  his  ambition  and  efforts  have  long  been 
directed  he  should  be  stricken  down  and  all  the  hopes  of  his  friends  shat 
tered.  His  death,  deplored  by  family,  friends,  and  neighbors  as  a  per 
sonal  sorrow  and  irreparable  loss,  is  a  State  and  national  calamity. 

His  steady  fidelity  to  those  principles  of  finance  which  alone  can  give 
an  unfluctuating  purchasing  power  to  American  currency  would  have 
made  him  a  prominent  and  efficient  member  of  the  Senate. 

But  "  Death  opens  the  gate  of  Fame  and  shuts  the  gate  of  Envy  after  it." 

These  words  appeared  in  the  Conservative,  a  paper  pub 
lished  in  Nebraska  City,  the  home  of  Senator  HAYWARD, 
and  were  written  by  the  editor,  Hon.  J.  Sterling  Morton, 
formerly  Secretary  of  Agriculture. 

I  think  it  fitting  that  what  I  have  to  say  be  introduced 
by  the  words  just  read,  because  they  come  from  a  friend  and 
S.  Doc.  455 4 


50         Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hayward. 

neighbor  of  many  years  and  from  a  man  who  was  thoroughly 
acquainted  with  the  late  Senator  HAYWARD  in  all  his  walks 
in  life.  Senator  HAYWARD  and  myslf  moved  to  Nebraska 
in  1867,  he  locating  at  Nebraska  City,  in  Otoe  County, 
while  I  followed  my  parents  to  Brown ville,  about  23  miles 
south.  While  a  boy  in  my  teens  I  met  Senator  HAYWARD 
in  his  office  in  Nebraska  City,  and  from  that  time  until  the 
day  of  his  death  my  acquaintance  with  him  was  close  and 
my  friendship  for  him  of  the  strongest  kind. 

As  a  private  citizen  Mr.  HAYWARD  always  took  an 
interest  in  the  affairs  of  the  community  in  which  he  resided. 
He  was  public-spirited  and  always  ambitious  that  the  city 
of  Nebraska  City  should  rival  all  other  towns  in  the  State 
in  point  of  importance  both  as  to  population  and  industries. 
He  always  took  an  interest  in  any  new  enterprises  which 
were  suggested  for  the  benefit  of  the  city,  and  contributed 
often  in  a  financial  way  to  the  upbuilding  and  growth  of 
different  institutions.  He  came  to  our  State  as  a  Repub 
lican  in  politics,  but  never  took  an  active  part  except  to 
further  the  interests  of  his  friends  and  associates.  His 
Republicanism  was  of  the  stalwart  brand,  and  whether  as  a 
delegate  to  a  convention  or  as  presiding  officer  of  it  he  did 
all  he  could  to  uphold  that  kind  of  Republicanism.  Aside 
from  serving  his  constituency  in  the  State  constitutional 
convention  and  acting  for  a  time  as  district  judge,  to  which 
he  was  appointed  as  successor  of  Judge  Mitchell,  a  neighbor 
and  friend,  till  the  Republican  party  in  our  State  nominated 
him  for  the  office  of  governor  in  the  year  1898,  he  never 
was  a  candidate  for  office.  He  rather  seemed  to  shrink 
from  the  trials  and  tribulations  following  in  the  wake  of 
office-seeking  and  office-holding,  and  was  content  to  be  an 


Address  of  Mr.  Mercer,  of  Nebraska.  51 

humble  member  of  the  party  and  contribute  his  share 
toward  its  success. 

The  Republican  press  of  our  State  in  the  year  1898  advo 
cated  him  as  a  suitable  man  to  be  made  the  member  of  Con 
gress  from  the  First  district  in  our  State,  and  in  the  alterna 
tive  that  he  stand  as  a  candidate  for  governor.  He  resisted 
this  pressure  for  some  time,  till  finally  it  became  so  great 
that  he  was  compelled  to  surrender  to  it,  and  then  it  was  he 
gave  up  the  idea  of  standing  for  Congress. and  announced  to 
his  friends  he  would  accept  the  nomination  for  governor  if 
tendered  him.  The  Republican  press  of  Nebraska  and  the 
Republicans  generally  had  made  his  canvass  for  the  nomi 
nation  so  complete  that  when  the  convention  met  he  was 
nominated  by  acclamation  and  by  unanimous  vote  of  all 
delegates  present. 

The  campaign  which  followed  was  a  memorable  one,  and 
the  fact  that  the  legislature  which  was  elected  at  this  time 
was  Republican  and  that  the  opposition  majority  on  gov 
ernor  was  reduced  to  the  small  figure  of  about  3,000  is  due 
more  to  the  magnificent  campaign  made  by  Senator  HAY- 
WARD  than  by  the  efforts  of  anyone  else  in  our  State.  He 
traveled  from  one  end  of  our  Commonwealth  to  the  other, 
visited  almost  every  county,  addressed  hundreds  of  meet 
ings,  and  conducted  himself  in  such  a  gentlemanly  and  dig 
nified  manner  as  to  command  the  respect  of  people  of  all 
parties,  and  could  that  campaign  have  lasted  another  thirty 
days  I  have  no  doubt  but  that  the  success  he  was  making 
when  election  day  came  would  have  resulted,  so  far  as  him 
self  was  concerned,  differently,  and  that  he  would  have  been 
declared  governor  of  our  State  by  a  majority  of  the  voters 
thereof.  He  overtaxed  his  strength  in  this  campaign,  and 
his  death  is  undoubtedly  due  to  the  overexertions  thereof. 


52         Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hayward. 

When  our  legislature  convened,  being  Republican  in  both 
branches,  attention  of  the  members,  especially  the  Repub 
lican  members,  was  called  to  the  magnificent  campaign 
just  waged  by  Senator  HAYWARD,  and  the  legislature  was 
asked  by  the  Republicans  throughout  the  State  and  by 
the  Republican  press  to  select  him  as  Senator  in  the 
United  States  Senate.  The  legislators  took  up  this  recom 
mendation,  coming  as  it  did  unsolicited  from  Senator 
HAYWARD,  and  after  a  struggle  of  many  days  he  was 
finally  elected  the  Senator  from  our  State.  But  the  contest 
both  in  the  campaign  for  governor  and  in  the  struggle 
for  the  Senatorship,  weakened  his  physique  to  such  an 
extent  that  death  claimed  him  before  he  could  take  the 
oath  of  office.  He  died,  as  he  lived,  among  his  friends 
and  neighbors  at  Nebraska  City,  at  the  home  he  loved 
so  well,  surrounded  by  his  family  and  intimate  friends. 
His  death  not  only  removed  from  our  State  a  statesman 
and  an  estimable  citizen,  but  it  deprived  the  Republican 
party  of  the  influence  and  strength  of  a  Senator  in  the 
Senate  of  the  United  States. 

Although  he  had  been  elected  for  several  months,  the 
election  came  after  the  Fifty-fifth  Congress  had  adjourned 
and  too  late  for  him  to  file  his  credentials  in  the  Senate  in 
open  session  and  receive  the  oath  of  office.  In  the  mean 
time  his  illness  weakened  him  so  rapidly  that  he  was 
carried  away  a  few  hours  after  the  Fifty-sixth  Congress 
convened  in  session  and  too  late  for  him  to  take  the 
oath  of  office  in  that  Congress.  In  this  respect  his  case  is 
almost  without  precedent;  in  fact,  I  do  not  recall  any  prec 
edent  of  this  character.  In  this  connection  I  am  reminded 
that  since  Nebraska  was  admitted  into  the  Union  our 


Address  of  Mr.  Mercer,  of  Nebraska.  53 

people  have  elected  ten  differrnt  citizens  to  the  United 
States  Senate  and  only  fonr  of  them  are  living  to-day;  and 
remarkable  as  it  may  seem,  three  of  the  men  died  in  the 
year  1899. 

I  might  add  that  during  the  same  year  a  member  of  Con 
gress  elected  to  the  Fifty-sixth  Congress  also  died  before 
he  could  serve  his  constituents  in  the  active  work  of  his 
office.  In  reviewing  the  record  in  this  respect  I  notice 
that  since  Nebraska  was  admitted  into  the  Union  27  men 
have  been  elected  Representatives  in  Congress,  7  of  whom 
have  passed  away.  Of  the  27  elected,  one  of  them,  the  late 
T.  M.  Marquette,  of  Lincoln,  served  as  Representative  in 
Congress  only  two  days.  The  brevity  of  his  term  was  due 
to  the  fact  that  Nebraska  had  just  been  admitted  into  the 
Union,  and  only  two  days  of  the  Congress  to  which  he 
was  elected  remained  after  the  State  was  admitted.  Rep 
resentatives  Laird,  Welch,  and  Greene  all  died  while  serv 
ing  a  term  in  Congress. 

Senator  HAYWARD  had  many  strong  points  in  his  char 
acter,  which  always  appealed  to  the  masses  when  made 
known  to  them.  He  was  an  unassuming  gentleman.  He 
did  not  belong  to  the  skyrocket  class.  He  was  not  mete 
oric  at  any  time.  He  was  a  good  lawyer,  full  of  the 
knowledge  of  his  profession,  and  at  the  same  time  full  of 
hard  common  sense.  He  thoroughly  investigated  subjects 
and  situations  before  committing  himself,  and  then  after 
he  took  a  stand  he  did  not  change  his  views.  He  never 
played  to  the  galleries.  He  was  not  in  the  habit  of  going 
on  dress  parade,  politically  speaking,  in  order  to  catch  the 
plaudits  of  the  crowd.  His  judgment  was  sound  and  his 
opinions  were  always  reliable.  His  advice  was  a  criterion 


54         Life  ^nd  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hayward. 

by  which  most  anyone  could  guide  his  steps  either  in  the 
practice  of  law  or  in  the  duties  of  citizenship.  He  detested 
hypocrisy  in  every  form.  Perhaps  one  of  the  strongest 
points  about  Senator  HAYWARD  was  his  love  of  family  and 
home.  He  was  an  ideal  husband  and  father,  and  this  fact 
impressed  itself  upon  his  friends  and  neighbors  wherever 
his  presence  went  and  wherever  his  influence  was  felt. 

He  had  a  happy  family,  a  contented  family.  Senator 
HAYWARD,  by  his  industry  and  economy,  had  accumulated 
a  goodly  share  of  this  Avorld's  goods,  and  he  always  de 
lighted  in  placing  it  at  the  disposal  of  his  wife  and  chil 
dren.  In  this  respect  he  teaches  us  a  lesson,  which  is 
indeed  a  most  valuable  one,  that  love  of  family  and  home 
is  really  the  cornerstone  of  our  best  civilization.  It  is 
always  a  check  upon  the  bad  influences  of  life,  and  at  the 
same  time  it  makes  the  foundation  of  one's  upbuilding  so 
strong  and  secure  that  the  man  who  was  as  strong  in  it  as 
Senator  HAYWARD  need  have  no  fear  of  the  average  dangers 
which  beset  mankind  in  this  changing  life  of  ours.  Sena 
tor  HAYWARD  served  his  country  in  time  of  war,  and  per 
haps  there  learned  many  lessons  which  proved  of  value  to 
him  in  after  years.  In  war  he  was  the  same  plain,  unas 
suming  man  that  he  was  in  peace,  but  he  was  just  as  good  a 
soldier  as  he  was  a  citizen  and  lawyer. 

During  the  campaign  of  1898  in  our  State  the  old  sol 
diers  flocked  to  his  standard  irrespective  of  party,  and  some 
of  the  most  interesting  scenes  I  observed  during  that  cam 
paign  grew  out  of  the  renewal  of  friendships  between 
HAYWARD  and  some  of  the  boys  in  blue  who  had  followed 
him  side  by  side  in  many  a  hotly  contested  field.  It  seems 
they  knew  him  well  in  those  trying  times,  had  seen  his 


Address  of  Mr.  Mercer,  of  Nebraska.  55 

courage  and  his  manhood  tested  in  all  kinds  of  fires,  and 
were  glad  of  the  chance  which  had  finally  come  to  them  to 
place  upon  his  head  the  distinguished  crown  of  governor 
ship  or  Senatorship.  The  old  soldiers  in  Nebraska,  irre 
spective  of  party,  voted  for  him,  and  I  think  to  this  fact  is 
due  in  the  main  the  splendid  result  he  obtained  on  election 
day. 

Senator  HAYWARD  has  passed  away,  but  the  lessons 
learned  from  his  life  by  the  people  of  our  State  will  live 
forever.  We  hope  to  profit  by  the  good  example  he  set  for 
us,  and  in  the  days  to  come  we  will  ever  remember  his  pre 
cepts  and  his  teachings  as  well  as  the  manner  in  which  he 
exemplified  them. 

Mr.  Speaker,  I  think  it  but  proper  and  fitting  that  I  con 
clude  these  remarks  by  adding  to  them  the  resolutions 
passed  by  the  Bar  Association  of  Otoe  County,  Nebr.  For 
over  thirty  years  Mr.  HAYWARU,  as  a  practitioner,  and 
Judge  HAYWARD,  as  a  judge,  either  practiced  law  or  dis 
pensed  it,  and  these  resolutions  show  the  respect  and  con 
fidence  in  which  he  was  held  by  the  members  of  that  bar. 

The  resolutions  are  as  follows : 

Judge  Paul  Jessen,  chairman  of  the  committee,  read  the  resolutions  pre 
pared  by  the  committee. 

MONROE    LELAXD    HAYWARD. 

Whereas  it  has  seemed  meet  to  an  overruling  Providence  to  remove 
from  our  midst,  and  from  his  scenes  of  usefulness,  our  brother,  Hon. 
MONROE  L,.  HAYWARD,  cut  down  in  the  prime  and  vigor  of  life  and  at 
the  beginning  of  an  extended  career  of  honor,  usefulness,  and  fame: 

Resolved,  That  it  is  fitting  that  his  brethren  of  the  bar  of  Otoe  County 
unite  in  the  expression  of  our  profound  sorrow  at  what  is  a  calamity  to  our 
city,  an  irreparable  loss  to  our  citizens,  and  a  personal  loss  to  those  who 
have  been  associated  with  him  daily  in  the  practice  of  our  chosen  profes 
sion  for  a  long  series  of  years,  and  that  we  make  a  matter  of  record  in  the 
forum  where  many  of  his  successes  were  achieved,  a  tribute  of  his  brethren 


56         Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hayward. 

to  his  long  and  useful  service  as  a  lawyer,  a  legislator,  and  a  judge;  his 
great  powers,  his  honest  record  in  public  and  private  affairs,  his  loyalty  to 
his  friends  and  to  his  nobility  of  character,  all  which  go  to  make  his  name 
and  fame  the  heritage  of  our  community,  and  have  endeared  him  to  the 
people  of  the  State  and  to  his  brethren  of  the  bar. 

A'esoh'erf,  That  in  his  life  and  record  we  recognize  in  our  deceased  brother 
great  power  as  a  close  analytical  reasoner,  both  upon  the  principles  of  law 
as  well  as  in  the  domain  of  fact,  before  the  juries  of  the  country.  With 
out  claiming  to  be  possessed  of  great  eloquence,  as  that  term  is  usually 
understood,  he  was  easily  the  strongest  member  of  the  bar  of  the  county, 
if  not  in  the  State,  in  his  discussion  of  facts,  in  his  presentation  of  the 
salient  points  of  his  case,  and  in  the  skill  with  which  he  carried  conviction 
to  the  minds  of  those  whom  he  was  trying  to  convince,  and  his  successes 
in  that  forum  attest  his  preeminent  ability.  In  the  discussion  of  legal 
propositions  he  was  clear,  logical,  and  convincing,  displaying  great  acumen 
and  analysis  and  a  happy  faculty  in  the  application  of  legal  principles  to 
the  facts  as  they  developed. 

He  was  a  man  of  great  force  of  character,  great  kindness  of  heart,  in  that 
he  was  always  willing  to  assist  the  distressed  with  his  purse  or  advice,  and 
he  was  of  unquestioned  integrity. 

As  the  judge  of  this  court  he  displayed  the  essential  qualities  of  strict 
impartiality,  fearlessness  in  his  decisions,  being  always  guided  by  what  he 
believed  to  be  right,  and  solicitous  only  that  impartial  justice  be  done 
between  the  contending  parties.  His  insight  into  the  merits  of  cases  was 
intuitive,  and  he  rarely  erred  in  arriving  at  a  just  decision  in  any  cause 
submitted  to  his  judgment.  He  knew  the  law,  and  exposition  of  it 
adorned  his  opinion,  unobscured  by  those  special  and  personal  influences 
which  always  surround  a  subject  in  controversy. 

He  lived  among  us  for  years,  and  left  upon  the  records  the  imprint  of 
his  strong  individuality.  He  was  a  safe  and  conscientious  counselor, 
faithful  to  his  clients  and  zealous  in  defense  of  their  rights,  and  no  man 
among  us  had  in  a  larger  degree  the  confidence  and  respect  of  the  whole 
community. 

His  gifts  were  varied  and  many.  He  successfully  conducted  great  finan 
cial  enterprises,  and  he  understood  and  was  versed  in  the  laws  governing 
trade  and  commerce  and  the  true  principles  underlying  our  financial  sys 
tem.  He  never  sacrificed  his  honest  convictions  in  the  hope  of  selfish 
gain  nor  agreed  with  the  mistakes  of  the  majority,  but  strenously  com 
bated  their  fallacies  and  errors. 

He  was  an  open,  honest,  indefatigable  opponent  and  a  true  and  loyal 
friend.  He  knew  his  foes  and  they  also  knew  him.  His  integrity  was 
never  doubted;  he  was  above  the  suspicion  of  corruption;  he  neither 
bought  nor  sold,  and  he  has  left  to  his  family  the  legacy  of  a  good  name 
and  untarnished  reputation. 

The  success  he  achieved  in  the  political  field  was  great,  but  his  methods 


Address  of  Mr.  Mercer,  of  Nebraska.  57 

were  clean  and  honest,  and  no  suspicion  of  bribery  or  wrongdoing  clouded 
the  ultimate  success,  and  the  great  pity  is  that,  standing  upon  the  thresh 
old  of  a  new  and  more  influential  career,  he  should  be  stricken  down 
before  he  had  the  opportunity  of  demonstrating  his  capabilities  and  force 
in  the  new  field.  To  have  achieved  the  goal  of  his  ambition  and  then  to 
have  the  cup  snatched  from  his  lips  as  he  was  about  to  quaff  the  wine  of 
success  is  a  forceful  and  sad  reminder  of  the  fleeting  character  of  earthly 
honors  and  of  the  emptiness  of  human  ambition. 

Resolved,  That  we  condole  with  his  family  in  their  great  loss  as  we 
grieve  for  our  own  personal  and  professional  loss  in  his  untimely  decease, 
and  that  we  report  these  resolutions  to  the  court  from  a  desire  to  testify  to 
our  affection  and  make  a  record  of  our  appreciation  of  his  eminent  quali 
ties  of  head  and  heart  that  distinguished  our  departed  brother,  and  request 
that  they  be  spread  at  length  upon  the  records  of  this  court  and  made  a 
part  thereof. 

It  is  further  ordered  that  a  certified  copy  of  these  resolutions,  under  the 
seal  of  the  court,  be  furnished  the  family  of  the  deceased. 

PAUL  JESSEN. 

E.  F.  WARREN. 

W.  C.  SLOAN. 

JOHN  A.  ROONEY. 

D.  T.  HAYDEN. 


58         Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hayward. 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  HULL,  OF  IOWA. 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  It  was  not  my  good  pleasure  to  enjoy  an 
extended  personal  acquaintance  with  the  late  Senator  from 
Nebraska.  Living  in  an  adjoining  State,  I  knew  of  him 
and  his  work,  and  was  therefore  greatly  pleased  last  year 
during  the  summer  to  have  the  privilege  of  spending  some 
four  or  five  days  with  him  and  becoming  in  a  limited  degree 
acquainted  with  the  man  and  his  characteristics.  From 
that  brief  acquaintance  I  feel  persuaded  that  the  country  at 
large  has  lost  a  valuable  counselor  in  the  higher  branch  of 
the  National  Congress. 

I  met  him  in  Montana,  traveled  011  the  same  car  with  him 
through  the  Dakotas,  and  spent  a  few  days  with  him  in 
one  of  the  Dakota  towns.  He  impressed  me  as  a  man  of 
strong,  splendid  physical  characteristics,  possessed  of  a  mind 
to  correspond  with  his  body.  As  one  of  his  colleagues  has 
said,  he  was  not  a  man  of  great  brilliancy  of  mind,  but  a 
man  rather  of  splendid  judgment,  of  untiring  energy,  and 
of  unswerving  honesty.  And  from  what  acquaintance  I  had 
with  him  at  that  time,  I  looked  forward  in  anticipation 
that  in  the  broader  field  opening  before  him  he  would  add 
to  the  already  splendid  reputation  he  had  attained  in  his 
State  as  an  upright  citizen,  as  a  safe  counselor,  as  an  incor 
ruptible  judge,  and  as  a  man  upon  whose  judgment  all  of 
his  acquaintances  and  friends  could  rely. 

It  was  to  me  a  matter  of  personal  sorrow  that  I  could  not 
meet  him  here  in  Washington,  and  that  he  could  not  enter 
upon  the  career  to  which  the  people  of  Nebraska  had  called 
him. 


Address  of  Mr,  Hull,  of  Iowa,  59 

I  can  not  add  anything  to  what  has  been  said.  I  can  only 
say  that  in  my  judgment  the  nation  at  large  has  lost  one  of 
its  most  useful  citizens,  that  the  members  of  his  family 
have  lost  a  devoted  husband  and  father,  and  the  State  of 
Nebraska  a  citizen  who  has  done  so  much  for  the  State  in 
the  past  and  whose  record  will  be  entwined  with  the  best 
years  of  his  State  up  to  the  time  when  death  claimed  him 
and  he  lay  down  to  an  eternal  rest. 


60         Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hay  ward. 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  STARK,  OF  NEBRASKA, 

Mr.  SPEAKER  :  I  would  briefly,  though  earnestly,  render 
tribute  to  the  life,  the  works,  and  the  worth  of  MONROE  L. 
HAYWARD,  late  a  Senator  from  Nebraska. 

Favored  by  only  a  slight  acquaintance  with  him  for  several 
years,  yet  I  came  to  know  the  measure  of  the  man,  his  intents 
and  purposes.  His  was  the  life  of  a  true  American ;  his 
ambition  and  aspirations,  his  hopes  and  desires  were  of  and 
for  his  home  and  his  country.  The  persistent  pursuit  of 
purpose,  the  fidelity  to  friends,  faith,  and  party,  together 
with  the  strict  integrity  of  his  manhood's  years,  bespoke 
the  fact  that  in  childhood  and  youth  he  had  had  the  sweet, 
the  tender,  and  the  watchful  care  of  a  good  mother. 

In  that  little  hamlet  in  New  York  State  this  boy  and 
youth  had  a  brave,  safe,  wise  counselor  and  guide.  Who 
among  us  can  make  proper  estimate  of  the  great  value  of 
the  impressions  made  by  the  mother  on  the  son,  or  of  their 
far-reaching  influences  upon  his  after  life?  The  filial  les 
sons  learned  about  the  family  hearth  are  never  forgotten, 
and  the  maternal  impressions  left  upon  the  plastic  mind  can 
never  be  wholly  effaced. 

What  a  world  for  good  does  not  the  glorious  motherhood 
of  America  now  control. 

Read  all  the  languages  of  earth, 

Compare  each  with  another ; 
Did  ever  one  a  word  give  birth 

Like  that  dear  and  loved  word — mother  ? 

We  first  hear  of  him  when,  in  his  twentieth  year,  at  the 
breaking  out  of  our  great  civil  war,  he  enlisted  in  his  conn- 


Address  of  Mr.  Stark,  of  Nebraska.  61 

try's  service.  His  was  the  will  to  do  and  to  dare;  on  his 
country's  altar  he  laid  his  all  ;  in  the  defense  of  our  flag 
risked  his  life.  Never  before  then  had  this  world  witnessed 
such  unselfish  patriotism,  such  grand  sacrifices  to  principle, 
or  such  heroic  devotion  to  his  country  and  flag  as  was  dis 
played  by  those  heroes,  the  noble  volunteers  of  1861  to  1865. 
The  irksome  duties  of  the  camp,  the  watchful  guard  kept 
day  and  night,  the  long  and  tedious  inarch  through  storm 
and  mud,  the  bivouac  in  snow  and  rain,  the  struggle  with 
disease  on  cots  of  pain  or  with  brave  foes  upon  the  battle 
line  defending  flag  and  country  are  my  highest  conception 
of  true  patriotism. 

Then  came  the  news,  war  has  begun, 

Brothers  engaged  in  bloody  fray: 
The  advance,  the  charge,  a  battle  won, 
The  shallow  trench,  the  mangled  son, 
The  humble  prayer,  "Thy  will  be  done," 

And  bowed  heads  turning  gray; 
The  hospital,  the  prison  pen, 
The  skeletons  that  once  were  men, 
The  unmarked  graves  in  shadowy  glen, 

Come  back  to  us  to-day. 

One-third  of  a  century  ago  MONROE  L.  HAYWARD  struck 
out  for  himself.  To  carve  out  a  home  and  a  future  he 
soiight  the  boundless  prairies  of  the  West.  He  became  a 
pioneer,  and  in  1867  located  at  Nebraska  City,  in  my  State. 

Even  then  the  buffalo  and  Indian  roamed  at  their  own 
sweet  will  over  those  great  plains,  now  covered  by  rich 
fields  and  gardens,  with  thriving  towns  and  villages, 
peopled  by  a  generous,  a  happy,  an  intellectual,  and  a 
patriotic  people. 

To  the  pioneers  who  in  the  past  through  countless  trials 
and  hardships  blazed  the  way  for  a  home,  church,  school, 
and  the  press,  we  owe  a  profound  and  lasting  gratitude. 


62         Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hay  ward. 

Senator  HAYWARD  began  the  practice  of  the  law,  and  by 
close  attention  and  constant  application  he  took  a  high 
place  in  the  profession  in  our  State.  On  our  level  and 
fertile  prairies,  with  vision  unobstructed  so  far  as  the  eye 
can  reach,  men's  minds  broaden,  their  sympathies  expand, 
and  human  aspirations  and  hopes  have  boundless  range. 
Senator  HAYWARD  advanced;  he  entered  the  judiciary ;  he 
became  district  judge. 

He  succeeded  financially  ;  for  that  country  he  became  a 
wealthy  man,  yet  not  at  the  expense  of  conscience. 

The  following  incident,  told  by  his  tried  friend,  Dr. 
Whitten,  of  Nebraska  City,  illustrates  the  character  of  the 
man : 

Mr.  HAYWARD  had  rented  a  farm  to  a  poor  though  honest  farmer  for  a 
cash  rent  per  acre,  money  to  be  paid  after  the  marketing  of  the  crops. 
Just  as  all  was  ready  for  harvest,  by  a  storm  of  hail  they  were  beaten  to 
the  ground.  The  honest  tenant  came  to  HAYWARD  and  proposed  to  mort 
gage  his  stock,  implements,  and  furniture  to  secure  the  debt,  that  he 
might  have  an  opportunity  to  raise  another  crop.  But  Mr.  HAYWARD 
said,  "  I  have  only  lost  the  interest  on  the  money  that  I  have  invested  in 
my  farm,  while  you  have  lost  your  seed  and  all  your  year's  labor.  You 
do  not  owe  me  anything."  And  he  aided  the  farmer  in  making  another 
crop. 

Senator  HAYWARD'S  ambitions  were  for  his  family  and 
country.  His  family  relations  were  tender  and  true,  and  in 
the  sacred  precincts  of  the  family  circle  his  great  wealth  of 
affection  was  freely  shown,  and  he  was  at  once  the  protector, 
counselor,  companion,  and  friend. 

That  he  succeeded,  the  happy  home  he  built,  the  reputa 
tion  he  sustained,  the  friends  he  made,  the  honors  we  accord 
him  to-day  doth  well  attest.  The  world  is  better  because 
he  lived ;  he  quitted  himself  like  a  man  and  left  an  example 
worthy  of  emulation  by  all  men. 


Address  of  Mr.  Sutherland,  of  Nebraska.  63 


ADDRESS  OF  MR,  SUTHERLAND,  OF  NEBRASKA. 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  Senator  MONROE  L.  HAYWARD  was  a 
prominent  character  in  the  history  of  Nebraska.  After 
having  served  his  country  as  a  volunteer  in  the  dark  days 
of  the  civil  war,  he  came  to  onr  State  to  establish  a  home 
and  to  practice  his  profession.  For  years  he  was  a  leading 
member  of  the  bar  and  was  honored  by  being  appointed  to 
a  position  on  the  bench.  In  1898  his  party  called  upon 
him  to  lead  in  the  campaign,  and  he  made  a  fair  and  vigor 
ous  canvass  for  the  governorship.  The  legislature  having 
been  carried  by  his  party,  he  was  elected  to  the  Senate  of 
the  United  States,  but  Providence  saw  fit  to  call  him  before 
he  entered  upon  his  active  duties.  Senator  HAYWARD  was 
a  man  of  broad  and  liberal  conduct  toward  those  who 
differed  with  him  upon  public  questions.  I  met  him  fre 
quently  during  the  campaign  of  1898,  and  in  no  instance 
did  he  depart  from  the  kindly  and  courteous  manner  that 
always  possessed  him.  When  the  news  of  his  death  reached 
me,  I  felt  that  not  only  had  the  State  lost  an  able  citizen, 
but  it  was  a  personal  loss  to  me;  for  while  differing  politi 
cally,  I  had  come  to  look  upon  him  as  a  warm  friend. 

When  on  occasions  like  this  we  remember  the  one  who 
has  fallen  in  our  midst  and  who  no  more  will  share  our 
responsibilities  and  labors,  it  is  but  natural  and  fitting  that 
our  review  of  his  life  should  be  fraught  with  the  utmost 
feeling  of  tenderness.  Death  is  a  fact  the  knowledge  of 
which  in  its  mysterious  potency  does  much  to  influence  the 


64         Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hayward. 

action  and  shape  the  destiny  of  men.  As  we  panse  in 
remembrance  of  the  years  of  unrelenting  toil  and  unyield 
ing  perseverance  of  effort,  fed  by  the  hidden  spring  of  manly 
determination  and  absolute  adherence  to  a  great  purpose, 
culminating  in  lofty  character,  broad  intellectual  capacity, 
and  the  greatest  of  all  genius,  the  ability  to  accomplish  by 
real  labor,  we  wonder  how  the  fact  of  death,  which  seems 
to  rob  us  of  all  the  qualities  and  attainments  of  our  departed 
colaborer,  can  be  reconciled  with  the  best  and  truest  end 
of  man. 

We  see  one  after  another  of  those  whose  work  seems 
only  partially  done,  whose  purposes  are  not  fully  accom 
plished,  and  whose  lives  give  promise  of  much  that  will  be 
useful  and  beneficial  to  their  fellow-men  stricken  down  by 
the  ruthless  hand  that  neither  pities  nor  tarries,  and  we  are 
tempted  to  believe  that  all  the  toil  of  preparation,  the  store 
of  wisdom,  and  the  power  of  accomplishment  are  in  the 
fact  of  death  lost  to  us  forever.  But  not  so.  A  truer  phi- 
losphy  and  a  calmer  reason  comes  to  our  aid,  and  a  voice 
cries  out  within  us  in  spite  of  our  fears,  in  spite  of  our 
doubts  and  forebodings,  that  neither  death  nor  any  princi 
ple,  power,  or  law  can  destroy  and  obliterate  the  character 
and  influence  of  man.  Towering  above  all  other  elements, 
whether  inherent  or  attained,  man's  moral  nature  is  his 
most  valuable  estate.  His  moral  purposes  find  expression 
in  his  actions,  and  actions  repeated  become  habits.  Habits, 
whether  good  or  bad,  in  course  of  time  ripen  into  princi 
ples  which  are  the  elements  entering  into  the  construction 
of  character,  which  is  immortal.  No  thought  ever  dies. 
The  influence  of  no  act  ever  ceases.  The  power  of  no 
example  is  ever  lost.  The  energy  of  pure  principle  is  a 


Address  of  Mr.  Sutherland,  of  Nebraska.  65 

living  force  that  no  power  can  destroy,  and  the  character 
builded  of  such  principle  can  know  no  death. 

We  share  to-day  the  common  sorrow  that  this  bereave 
ment  brings.  Our  sympathy  is  extended  to  the  home  from 
which  husband  and  father  is  missed  and  mourned.  We 
appreciate  the  loss  to  the  community  of  one  whom  many 
delighted  to  honor.  We  realize  in  some  measure  the  loss 
of  a  State  bereaved  of  her  chosen  representative,  as  also 
the  loss  of  the  nation,  one  of  whose  chief  council  has 
fallen.  Still,  in  the  midst  of  sorrow  and  the  memory  of 
loss,  we  are  assured  that  in  recounting  the  forces  and  ele 
ments  that  make  for  elevation,  progress,  and  an  ideal 
civilization  nothing  is  or  can  be  lost. 

MONROE  Iy.  HAYWARD  lives!  In  thought,  purpose,  and 
character,  in  energy  and  influence,  he  lives  and  can  not  die. 
While  we  wait  our  time  to  meet  the  same  grim  messenger 
that  he  has  met,  while  we  endure  the  doubts  and  fears 
attendant  upon  death's  relentless  agency  in  changing  rela 
tion  and  environment,  while  we  bow  of  necessity  to  death's 
demand  upon  the  flesh,  we  exult  in  the  fact  that  is  an  intu 
ition — the  untaught  language  of  our  inner  nature — which 
speaks  to  the  world,  saying  that  to  man  in  moral  nature 
and  achievement  there  is  no  death.  In  this  confidence  we 
approach  the  future  with  the  prayer — 

O  Thou  of  soul  and  sense  and  breath, 

The  ever  present  Giver, 
Unto  Thy  mighty  angel,  Death, 

All  flesh  Thou  dost  deliver; 
What  most  we  cherish  we  resign, 
For  life  and  death  alike  are  Thine, 

Who  reignest  Lord  forever! 

S.  Doc,  455 5 


66         Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hayward. 


ADDRESS  OF  MR,  NEVILLE,  OF  NEBRASKA. 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  I  should  not  feel  that  I  had  performed  my 
duty  as  a  representative  of  Nebraska  if  I  failed  to  use  this 
opportunity  to  express  the  great  sorrow  felt  by  all  Nebras- 
kans  by  reason  of  the  death  of  Senator  MONROE  L,.  HAY- 
WARD. 

My  personal  acquaintance  with  him  extended  over  only 
a  few  years,  but  there  was  nothing  hidden  in  his  character, 
and  an  acquaintance  with  him  of  however  short  duration 
revealed  as  a  part  of  his  great  individuality  the  three 
striking  qualities  of  love,  justice,  and  charity  toward 
his  fellow-beings. 

I  knew  of  him  as  one  knows  the  illustrious  persons  of 
any  State  or  country  long  before  it  was  my  pleasure  to 
kno\v  him  personally. 

From  the  members  of  his  political  party,  which  differed 
from  mine,  I  heard  of  him  as  one  demanding  honesty  of 
purpose  and  faithful  performance  of  pledges  as  a  prerequi 
site  to  party  success  or  his  support.  He  was  not  an  office 
seeker,  but  at  all  times  possessed  the  confidence  of  the 
members  of  his  party  throughout  the  State,  constantly 
declining  political  honors  in  favor  of  his  fellow-workers, 
yet  universally  mentioned  as  the  ideal  standard  bearer 
when  the  task  in  hand  appeared  to  be  herculean. 

After  his  party  had  for  a  few  years  occupied  a  degraded 
position  in  his  State,  resulting  from  a  criminal  and  con 
victed  leadership,  and  while  a  felon's  cell  still  held  the 
spoilsmen,  Judge  HAYWARD  was  called  to  the  helm  and 


Address  of  Mr.  Neville,  of  Nebraska.  67 

landed  his  party  with  a  majority  in  the  legislative  branch, 
and  for  this  service  he  was  rewarded  with  the  high  office  of 
United  States  Senator. 

From  the  members  of  the  legal  profession,  who  are  best 
qualified  to  determine  judicial  character,  I  learned  that  he 
was  a  laborious,  able,  and  just  judge,  ahvays  impartial  in 
his  rulings,  correct  in  his  legal  conclusions,  genial  to  the 
officers  of  his  court,  obliging  to  the  witnesses  and  litigants, 
and  merciful  to  the  convicted  unfortunates. 

His  ability,  temperate  and  frugal  habits,  and  industry 
enabled  him  to  acquire  sufficient  of  this  world's  goods  for 
the  comfort  of  his  own  family  and  to  largely  accommodate 
his  needy  neighbors,  and  it  is  said  of  him,  to  his  great 
credit  in  this  day  and  age,  that  when  a  debtor  sought  of 
him  an  extension  of  time,  he  got  not  only  the  extension 
asked,  but  along  with  it  more  money  to  tide  him  over  his 
perplexity. 

Coming  into  manhood  in  a  period  in  our  history  when 
the  great  question  of  human  liberty  was  about  to  dismem 
ber  man's  ideal  government,  he  enlisted,  in  1861,  in  the 
Twenty-second  New  York  Infantry  Volunteers,  and,  being 
transferred  to  the  Fifth  New  York  Cavalry,  served  his 
country  until  sickness  and  disability  caused  by  exposure  in 
active  army  campaign  compelled  his  discharge. 

Those  of  us  who  were  near  his  age  and  who  with  him 
were  enthused  by  patriotism  inspired  by  our  country's  call 
and  danger  can  realize  what  must  have  been  his  chagrin 
when  notified  that  he  was  not  physically  able  to  longer 
battle  in  the  ranks  for  a  united  country. 

Words  in  eulogy,  no  matter  how  numerous  and  high 
sounding,  can  only  interest  those  who  could  not  know  him 


68         Life  and  Character  of  Monroe  L.  Hayward. 

personally.  To  his  acquaintances  his  greatness  was  beyond 
the  descriptive  powers  of  combined  language.  Word  paint 
ing  can  in  no  sense  condole  the  bereaved  family  surviving. 
To  them  stern  reality  was  inefTaceably  lodged  when  the 
heart  of  their  loved  protector  ceased  to  beat,  and  their  only 
solace  is  the  knowledge  that  the  inestimably  good  must  in 
the  future  be  rewarded  with  greater  opportunities. 

Day  after  day,  year  after  year,  and  century  after  century 
the  minister  has  said  to  the  mourning  throng,  "It  is  God's 
will;"  and  with  as  much  uniformity  the  mourning  widow, 
while  shaking  her  head  in  agonizing  dissent,  has  murmured 
to  herself,  "Why  is  it  I?"  forgetting  for  the  time  being  that 
I,  we,  and  all  are  recorded  to  suffer  when  God's  will  discerns 
less  use  for  our  protectors  here  than  in  the  great  realm  to 
which  we  are  all  heir.  We  are  too  apt  to  feel  that  this  one 
of  the  trials  through  which  all  must  pass  in  fulfilling  the 
decree  of  God  has  come  to  us  too  soon  and  that  it  would 
have  pressed  more  lightly  upon  other  shoulders.  Yet  upon 
calm  reflection  we  must  see  that  the  hope  of  long  life  to  us 
and  our  dear  ones  is  equally  and  from  the  same  cause  and 
with  the  same  right  the  hope  of  the  entire  human  family. 

Let  us  hope  in  this  instance  that  God's  mercy  will  aid 
recuperating  nature,  and  that  the  desolate  widow,  with  the 
advantages  obtained  by  contact  with  such  a  noble  husband, 
may  live  long  to  continue  the  life  work  so  well  carried 
forward  by  both. 


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